On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:56:54 +0200, Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > So, I contacted him and we chatted for about an hour. > He said that he's been trying to pay more attention and improve his > messages lately. > We went through a list of problems and he was willing to listen (he > actually seemed more polite than I expected). > He also seemed somewhat frustrated by the fact that his messages are taken > in a negative way, because he doesn't mean to be negative. > I also went through his recent messages on the tracker to find "negative" > examples but admittedly they mostly seem OK, so I wonder if "our" opinion > towards him is already negatively biased and leads us to be less tolerant > with him > At the end he thanked me for bringing this up with him, and apparently he > is willing to improve.
This is great. Certainly my reading of the issue title I mentioned in my previous email was an overreaction. I will do my best to reset my personal filters :) --David _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
