After some consideration at our weekly meeting (this monday), and a recommendation from the Conduct WG (last friday), the Steering Council has decided to ban Marco Sulla from all Core Developer spaces for at least a year. (For the record, Brett abstained from voting on this issue.) We also agreed to add Ethan to the python-dev moderators, who's already taken the more specific action of banning Marco from python-dev for 3 months. If anyone else is interested in assisting with moderation on python-dev, please let us know.

Marco wasn't solely responsible for how bad some of the discussion went, but his messages were the ones that clearly crossed the line, both in tone and in language, and it isn't the first time; as he's already pointed out, he was previously banned from discuss.python.org for the same kind of behaviour. We do want to admonish and encourage everyone who participated in the discussions to reconsider their posts. We've heard from quite a lot of people how badly the whole conversation was viewed, and how much it alienated people -- both potential new contributors and old hands on python-dev.

We've said before that this behaviour has to stop, and we do mean it. At this point we need to have a larger discussion about the future of python-dev, but we want to handle that separately from this particular incident. We’ll think a bit more about what the options are, and start a separate discussion about it later this week.
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