On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> wrote:
I'd like to raise a concern that Anatoly's actions are disruptive and largely unhelpful. His passive-agressive writing style is well known but it seems this no longer satisfies him. Today, without consulting anyone he edited our Wiki guidelines and removed the "Do not remove guidelines you do not agree with!" note (yes, really):
http://wiki.python.org/moin/WikiGuidelines?action=diff&rev1=35&rev2=36
Should we react in any way? How do you perceive his contributions in general?
As far as I know, most of the core committers that follow python-ideas at all already have him killfiled so we don't see his messages, only replies to him. I believe I was one of the last holdouts, but relented after losing my temper with him a few times earlier this year and realising I no longer had any patience for him, after spending a lot of time trying to help channel his passion in more productive directions.
That's always been the problem - his passion for Python is clear, but he's completely clueless when it comes to dealing with people, so it ultimately just isn't worth the hassle of trying to engage. It's starting to sound like we may need to do something more drastic than just ignoring him, though - the occasional good idea he's come up with may not be worth the cost it is having in terms of annoying other community members :(
Sadly, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia