[python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:56:54 +0200, Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
> 
> > You're wasting your time if you think you will be the one to break
> > through to him after several people have already talked to him.
> > Apparently he even got on Skype with Guido about this. People would
> > *pay* to have that chance. Anatoly got it for being a jerk and it
> > changed nothing.
> >
> 
> So, I contacted him and we chatted for about an hour.
> He said that he's been trying to pay more attention and improve his
> messages lately.
> We went through a list of problems and he was willing to listen (he
> actually seemed more polite than I expected).
> He also seemed somewhat frustrated by the fact that his messages are taken
> in a negative way, because he doesn't mean to be negative.
> I also went through his recent messages on the tracker to find "negative"
> examples but admittedly they mostly seem OK, so I wonder if "our" opinion
> towards him is already negatively biased and leads us to be less tolerant
> with him
> At the end he thanked me for bringing this up with him, and apparently he
> is willing to improve.

This is great.

Certainly my reading of the issue title I mentioned in my previous email
was an overreaction.  I will do my best to reset my personal filters :)

--David