On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> wrote:
Dnia 25 gru 2012 o godz. 13:37 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> napisał(a):
I'm well and truly to the point of caring far more about the feelings of people who get frustrated trying to deal with his obtuseness (whether that arises deliberately or through genuine cluelessness) than I care about his feelings. He has the entire internet to play on, we don't have to allow him access to python.org controlled resources.
+1
I opened this thread so I feel somewhat responsible to carry this out to finish. Give me a day or two to contemplate on how to achieve the following:
Communicate what happened clearly and openly to our community.
Communicate to Anatoly the decision to cut him off.
Arrange for feasible technological ways to execute the ban on python.org resources, preparing also for vengeful action (which given the history is unfortunately likely).
Prepare for rectifying unjust PR by the banned person, etc.
I'm seriously considering writing all this as a PEP (most likely without any personal details). I hope this won't be useful in the future but it might help having this gathered as written policy, if only for transparency reasons.
What do you think?
I feel very bad that it has come to this but I strongly believe this is necessary to protect us as a community.
I think #2 is going to be hard to safely write if you intend to send it to python-dev addressed to Anatoly (which I got from #1). The shorter the better is my tip. I'm available to review/bikeshed about this email if you intend to write it. Also, please only post this to one list, preferably -dev and not -ideas.
#3 can be handled pretty swiftly since the appropriate people are all involved in this conversation.
On #4, whatever you do, please don't get involved in some back-and-forth post war and don't go around Reddit trying to further justify anything. If people talk, and they will, let them.
Please don't write this up in a PEP. We're getting flak from all directions for code of conduct things on the PyCon/PSF side of things, and that's along the lines of what this would be. I actually do have some ideas in that area, but that's for another list and another time. This should just be an email.