[python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Łukasz Langa <lukasz at 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.

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