Ian Ballard

> To clarify, are you offering resources in the form of long term support or funding to setuptools to support your urgent request of these seemingly resource intensive corporate-like governance...

@mgorny Totally hear you. This really is an ecosystem problem, and that’s exactly why setuptools is in a great position to lead the way. The pushback isn’t about avoiding progress—it’s...

> P.S. [@ianballard](https://github.com/ianballard) since you've created the issue using the blank template, you probably didn't see the CoC link present in other forms. So I'll leave it here for you:...

> As part of the community are you going to organize, or provide, funding or resources to the setuptools maintainers to address these urgent requests and reviews? You haven’t clarified...

Appreciate the detailed response—there’s a lot here I agree with. To clarify my position again: I’m not saying breaking changes should never happen, or that semver isn’t valid. But when...

Please see this open issue [Urgent: Governance and Change Management Review After Breaking Change in #4870](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4919)