contributors

Once they start expanding the high level functionality, they will lose potential contributors by sticking with pure C.

Bitbucket is free for private repos if there are <=5 contributors (unless you have a.edu email = unlimited free).

We value individual contributors on the team and department level greatly, and have a fantastic culture of recognizing self starters.

Safari is just a wrapper around WebKit which is an open source project with many contributors.

The top 0.1% are the SuperPAC contributors and they control the entire debate.

Omnibus is a great project with a lot of contributors, but users beware - it comes at a price of time and complexity.

What do the other contributors working on the previously-existing project do?

I don't know how real contributors/maintainers feel, but as a user and sometimes patch-submitter, I feel like things have gotten better.

E.g., it would only forbid personal attacks, credible threats of violence against other contributors and violations of the law (like committing warez to the repository).

I would make it free for contributors, and paid for lurkers (i.e., monetize karma).

So, that's why you should switch to python 3, because the only way to benefit from the good work the core contributors do, is by switching.

It would deny any responsibility for what the contributors say elsewhere on the Internet and state an unwillingness to discuss their speech on the project grounds.

Bucketing people off as "rational people" and "worthy contributors" because they disagree with your beliefs is an unfortunate way of dismissing conversation, probably something that you dislike when people that oppose your beliefs do it.