On 12/25/2012 8:01 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:
Am 25.12.2012 13:37, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
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)
I believe it is cluelessness mixed with an idiosyncratic nacissistic obstinacy that seems to block him from learning. I no longer take anything he says personally.
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.
I personally see his signal-noise ratio as about 1/2, but can understand if others put it lower (though still above 0/infinity).
The issue Christian mentions below was at most 1/10. On the other hand, another recent issue was close to 1/1 and lead to a doc patch.
He is so far beyond the point of political correctness and respectability that I'm unable to find any words for his behavior in my dictionary. His attitude hasn't improved, too. For example in bug http://bugs.python.org/issue16689 he used an offensive title and re-opened the ticket *twice* although it was closed by two different and highly respectable core devs.
I hate to kick out people but I see no other way to deal with the issue anymore. :(
The third close message said clearly 'Do not reopen again.'. If he ignores that, then I think his tracker access should be suspended for at least a month. (IE, I think that message constituted 'warning'.)
Terry Jan Reedy