No, I never got on Skype with Anatoly. I did write a very frank email and got the usual response. I don't think I am up to doing anything more about him. He doesn't bother me that much, I ignore most of his threads. He is a reviewer and committer on Rietveld and behaves better there.
--Guido On Wednesday, December 26, 2012, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Ezio Melotti > <ezio.melo...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > That said, ISTM that the main problem is that the way he communicates is > not > > really effective and that results in an "energy drain" for other people. > > This can be addressed on both the sides. > > The community should ignore the tone of the messages or even the messages > > themselves and most importantly avoid replies that convey the same > negative > > feelings. > > I've filtered his emails to the trash for almost two years now, but > I'm not going to ignore that he's now discouraging my friends and > colleagues from contribution. I already removed myself from the nosy > list on a bunch of issues he created in the past, and the people who > were willing to work with him are dropping off. I also will not ignore > his tone about a GSoC contribution being useless. > > > People should be able to recognize when a discussion is not > > constructive anymore and leave it, rather than wasting time just to > prove a > > point or to repeat themselves. (Note that this apply to everyone, and > not > > to anatoly in particular). > > Regarding the effectiveness of the communications there's certainty room > for > > improvement, but apparently the previous attempts to address the problem > > were unsuccessful. I'm willing to make an attempt myself, as I think I > have > > a quite clear idea of the problem. > > You're wasting your time if you think you will be the one to break > through to him after several people have already talked to him. > Apparently he even got on Skype with Guido about this. People would > *pay* to have that chance. Anatoly got it for being a jerk and it > changed nothing. > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org <javascript:;> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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