> if the CoC people are in the right the fork dies.
I would disagree with that part. Forks are highly difficult. OpenBSD succeeded, so did the gcc fork that was sponsored by Cygwin but then merged back into mainline gcc. Otherwise?
Then, the council owns the entire marketing organization PSF, which owns the conferences, which means undesirables can and will be deplatformed.
It is much much harder to do a successful fork in 2024 than it was in 2005. Open source is corporate now, and the employees will stick with the official version and not the fork.
I think you could literally write an XPython fork that is 2 times faster, has a 100% compatibility but would still be marketed out of existence.
If Python had a free standard, it might be possible. But that will not happen.
https://marc.info/?l=python-dev&m=107666540014940&w=2
"Eek... What do we have the fucking warning framework and deprecation warnings for, anyway ?!"
Van Rossum:
https://marc.info/?l=python-dev&m=139283012525982&w=2
"Larry volunteered to be the release manager and got widespread support when he did. If you don't trust him, go fucking fork the release yourself."
Both are members of the inner circle and protected.