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The people who can and should complain if they feel misled about how their money was used are the people who donated the money. Have any of them complained? I s

The people who can and should complain if they feel misled about how their money was used are the people who donated the money. Have any of them complained? I say this with some seriousness. NO WHERE that I can see did Reitz say he would hire NJS to do some work. Is Reitz even setup properly to report for taxes or withold taxes on amounts paid to NJS, check paperwork for work eligiblity etc? Would this even be allowable if requests is not a business, or would deductions be disallowed as non business (ie, a payment to NJS -> subject to tax to both Reitz and NJS potentially?). If you as a donor want full charitable compliance using PSF you would ask to give through them - and perhaps more would have been given if PSF had been an option. I don't even see NJS on the requests contributor list: https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst Finally, requests 3 has a number of features.

fastball 7y ago
How can the people who donated money complain without NJS posting as he did?
shkkmo 7y ago
My take on it is that NJS was no so much upset/concerned about not getting paid as he was about the way he was treated and how this behavior affects the community. > And on a more personal level, I felt his interactions with me were extremely manipulative. I felt like he tried to exploit me, and that he tried to make me complicit in covering up his lies to protect his reputation. I was extremely uncomfortable with the idea of going along with this, but he created a situation where my only other options were to either give up on working on async entirely, or else to go public with the whole story, at potentially serious cost to myself. > Ultimately, I decided to speak out because I care deeply about the Python community and its members. If one of our community's most prominent members freely lies to donors and harms volunteers, and if we all let that go without saying anything, then that puts everything we've built together at risk. And I'm in a better position than many to speak up. The intent seems not to be trying to get people to blacklist or dogpile on Reitz, but to simply make people aware of the issues so they won't get caught off guard. > This is the classic "missing stair" problem. Those in the inner circle quietly work around the toxic person. Outsiders come in blind. I'm pretty well-connected in the Python world, and I came in blind. > Since this is the internet, I have to say explicitly: Please do not harass or abuse Reitz. That's never appropriate

fastball 7y ago

How can the people who donated money complain without NJS posting as he did?

shkkmo 7y ago

My take on it is that NJS was no so much upset/concerned about not getting paid as he was about the way he was treated and how this behavior affects the community. > And on a more personal level, I felt his interactions with me were extremely manipulative. I felt like he tried to exploit me, and that he tried to make me complicit in covering up his lies to protect his reputation. I was extremely uncomfortable with the idea of going along with this, but he created a situation where my only other options were to either give up on working on async entirely, or else to go public with the whole story, at potentially serious cost to myself. > Ultimately, I decided to speak out because I care deeply about the Python community and its members. If one of our community's most prominent members freely lies to donors and harms volunteers, and if we all let that go without saying anything, then that puts everything we've built together at risk. And I'm in a better position than many to speak up. The intent seems not to be trying to get people to blacklist or dogpile on Reitz, but to simply make people aware of the issues so they won't get caught off guard. > This is the classic "missing stair" problem. Those in the inner circle quietly work around the toxic person. Outsiders come in blind. I'm pretty well-connected in the Python world, and I came in blind. > Since this is the internet, I have to say explicitly: Please do not harass or abuse Reitz. That's never appropriate