On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 5:28 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: >> >> On 12/25/2012 5:56 PM, Łukasz Langa wrote: >> > I'm seriously considering writing all this as a PEP (most likely >> > without any personal details). I hope this won't be useful in the >> > future but it might help having this gathered as written policy, if >> > only for transparency reasons. >> >> This strike me as over-reaction. > > I'm not at all sure that it is, but that "most likely" had better be > replaced by "most certainly". Such a policy needs to rest on fundamental > principles. "Bad cases make bad law", so one must be careful not to > craft a policy to deal only with a specific egregious thing, but rather > craft something that will serve well in the general cases. Specifically, > any such policy, and any statement made if we take action on Anatoly, will > have to address the inevitable calls that we are engaging in censorship. > There are principled answers to that charge, but we must decide which > of them we are following and why, and articulate that clearly and > consistently.
+1. It might seem bureaucratic to some, but I think grounding actions in due process and documented policy is important. The Diversity Statement is a good example of this. (That statement has a different purpose though. It's more about something we want rather than how to handle something we don't want.): http://www.python.org/community/diversity/ What is CoC by the way? > As an aside, it has occurred to me that the fundamental problem here is > that we do not feel that Anatoly respects *us*. So it is no wonder that > we are offended and do not respect him. FWIW, I've found him to be more what I'd call spammy/annoying and lacking in some areas rather than disrespectful (opening many issues with vague descriptions, starting more than his share of threads on python-ideas, etc). So I've never felt offended. Granted, I'm relatively new to being involved and don't follow him closely. I quickly learned to pass over most of what he writes for lack of time. It's a source of amazement to me that what he writes sometimes leads to something productive. --Chris _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
