alt Hacker NewsI'm also out of the loop, but from my reading, I guess some people didn't like Tim Peters and his positions on some culture war stuff, and didn't like that people were generally focusing on his positive contributions to the project right after his death, rather than his views on race or whatever.
Oh, that's even weirder. So the drama was that people were saying nice things about somebody who had just passed?
Then I'm more confused than before about why the original commenter on this branch would suggest this security feature release is a "diversion". A diversion from what? The fact that people weren't talking about something?