[python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at 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