[python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for me - try it
>> ;-)
>
>
> I've filtered his emails to the trash for close to two years now so I'm
> only aware of him when issues like this come up. He doesn't get to come in
> here and act how he does, and openly say he's being disrespectful on
> purpose, and then say that he can't be nice if we don't make him happy.
>
> I doubt he would walk into a restaurant, complain about the process they
> used to create their menu, then complain when they don't make food the way
> he likes, then be mean to the waiters and waitresses because they're not
> seeing to it that he is comforted. If he did, they'd just call the police
> and he'd be escorted out.
>

This analogy feels flawed -- Python users who are unhappy with the
community's process for change can't just switch to Ruby, because they have
all this software that's already written in Python.

I'm still thinking about whether there's something we committers should do
besides staying calm and staying out of the discussion despite the
offensive criticism, but nothing comes to mind.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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