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> I think a lot of people don't realize how little Reitz actually has to do with Requests development. For many years now, actual maintenance has been done almo

> I think a lot of people don't realize how little Reitz actually has to do with Requests development. For many years now, actual maintenance has been done almost exclusively by other volunteers. If you look at the maintainers list on PyPI, you'll see he doesn't have PyPI rights to his own project, because he kept breaking stuff, so the real maintainers insisted on revoking his access. If you clone the Requests git repo, you can run git log requests/ to see a list of every time someone changed the library's source code, either directly or by merging someone else's pull request. The last time Reitz did either was in May 2017, when he made some whitespace cleanups. This is interesting. I can imagine that going both ways - maybe he feels like he's lost control over the project and that worsens his other reactions?

runjake 1y ago
I think the important thing here is that Kenneth came up with Requests and did the initial implementation beginning in 2011. The author is referring to Kenneth's involvement in Requests at that time (2019), long after its creation. Substantial work has been done on Requests since he stepped away from the project, but it was born from him.
- nemomarx 1y ago
  Oh yeah I don't mean to diminish that part. Rather, I'm thinking this might actually be one of the things he's talking about in the post? Whatever happened that the maintainers took over the repo, that could be a point of tension and maybe a loss of control for him. Which would definitely make you feel like the community was isolating you, right? Different sides to the story, and neither post here explains exactly what happened with Requests.
kennethreitz 1y ago
I didn't lose control of my project, I removed myself from it intentionally (and unprompted).
- nemomarx 1y ago
  gotcha, and I appreciate the info. that sounds less acrimonious than I was imagining definitely

runjake 1y ago

I think the important thing here is that Kenneth came up with Requests and did the initial implementation beginning in 2011. The author is referring to Kenneth's involvement in Requests at that time (2019), long after its creation. Substantial work has been done on Requests since he stepped away from the project, but it was born from him.

nemomarx 1y ago
Oh yeah I don't mean to diminish that part. Rather, I'm thinking this might actually be one of the things he's talking about in the post? Whatever happened that the maintainers took over the repo, that could be a point of tension and maybe a loss of control for him. Which would definitely make you feel like the community was isolating you, right? Different sides to the story, and neither post here explains exactly what happened with Requests.

kennethreitz 1y ago

I didn't lose control of my project, I removed myself from it intentionally (and unprompted).

nemomarx 1y ago
gotcha, and I appreciate the info. that sounds less acrimonious than I was imagining definitely