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He actually responded on his blog: http://journal.kennethreitz.org/entry/conspiracy

Some of the statements are pretty hard to believe (nobody wants to work on the future of one the most popular Python libraries ever? Uh... more likely nobody wants to sit in a (virtual) room with him, now they’ve effectively managed to remove him from Requests 2...). And it confirms the 30k have been spent, with Requests 3 still not appearing even in half-done status.



Whoo. That's a rather aggressive response.

"I appear to be the target of a personal character attack piece, that's been making it's rounds on social media today, expertly timed to ruin my weekend at PyCon US 2019.

"I got nothing but strange signals from njs since I first interacted with him, which is why I didn't answer his threatening-sounding emails. What was the threat I was perceving? That he'd do basically do exactly this."




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