On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
If that fails, banning him would show that we care about the quality of communication and technical prowess is no excuse for abusive behavior.
The problem is how do we do that? Do the owners of various systems take it upon themselves or do we take on some concerted effort across the whole community? I mean I'm a moderator on python-ideas, but no one has directly complained to python-ideas-owner@ yet (although I guess I indirectly complained to myself when I started to auto-delete his emails and some people have personally vented to me as a friend) and I can't make him never appear on the issue tracker again (at least I don't think only Martin can). Does the PSF need to get involved somehow if we try to do a community-wide thing instead of a per-system thing where it's more at the discretion of the maintainers?
If nothing else, it seems like the time has come to get the ball rolling on this, so we at least have a plan for how to do this kind of thing?
I would definitely agree that his contributions here (and elsewhere, BTW) are negative enough that banning is warranted.
Cheers,
Dirkjan