Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Andrew Svetlov  wrote:
> Let's wait a bit.
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Guido van Rossum  wrote:
>> From his response to me he seems to be unaware that there is a problem...
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Andrew Svetlov 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've sent email to Anatoly in Russian describing current situation.
>>> CC'ed Eli Bendersky and Łukasz Langa as humans who understand Russian
>>> well enough to be witness for my words.

Did anything come of this? There are now a few more threads on
python-ideas that are almost pure Anatoly-instigated noise :P

I'm well and truly to the point of caring far more about the feelings
of people who get frustrated trying to deal with his obtuseness
(whether that arises deliberately or through genuine cluelessness)
than I care about his feelings. He has the entire internet to play on,
we don't have to allow him access to python.org controlled resources.

Regards,
Nick.

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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 25.12.2012 13:37, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> I'm well and truly to the point of caring far more about the feelings
> of people who get frustrated trying to deal with his obtuseness
> (whether that arises deliberately or through genuine cluelessness)
> than I care about his feelings. He has the entire internet to play on,
> we don't have to allow him access to python.org controlled resources.

+1

He is so far beyond the point of political correctness and
respectability that I'm unable to find any words for his behavior in my
dictionary. His attitude hasn't improved, too. For example in bug
http://bugs.python.org/issue16689 he used an offensive title and
re-opened the ticket *twice* although it was closed by two different and
highly respectable core devs.

I hate to kick out people but I see no other way to deal with the issue
anymore. :(

Christian
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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Andrew Svetlov
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Nick Coghlan  wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Andrew Svetlov  
> wrote:
>> Let's wait a bit.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Guido van Rossum  wrote:
>>> From his response to me he seems to be unaware that there is a problem...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Andrew Svetlov 
>>> wrote:

 I've sent email to Anatoly in Russian describing current situation.
 CC'ed Eli Bendersky and Łukasz Langa as humans who understand Russian
 well enough to be witness for my words.
>
> Did anything come of this? There are now a few more threads on
> python-ideas that are almost pure Anatoly-instigated noise :P
>

I got reply from Anatoly. Short summary is:
1. He don't want to sign Licence Agreement by some reasons (not clean
to me. Looks like his objections are not showstopper for every another
contributor).
2. He don't want to work on patches due lack of free time/interest and
not enough experience level.
3. He like to protect hard his opinion unless 100% sure he is wrong.
and
4. He want to be helpful for Python and community

Looks like points 1-3 are opposite to point 4 :)

> I'm well and truly to the point of caring far more about the feelings
> of people who get frustrated trying to deal with his obtuseness
> (whether that arises deliberately or through genuine cluelessness)
> than I care about his feelings. He has the entire internet to play on,
> we don't have to allow him access to python.org controlled resources.
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   [email protected]   |   Brisbane, Australia



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Re: [python-committers] Commit privs for Serhiy Storchaka?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Trent Nelson  wrote:
> He's pretty active on IRC and the tracker.  I haven't dealt with any
> of his patches personally, but I know lots of others have.  Thoughts?

+1 from me.  'pretty active' is something of an understatement. :-)

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Re: [python-committers] Commit privs for Serhiy Storchaka?

2012-12-25 Thread Andrew Svetlov
+1. I committed a lot of Serhiy's patches.

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Mark Dickinson  wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Trent Nelson  wrote:
>> He's pretty active on IRC and the tracker.  I haven't dealt with any
>> of his patches personally, but I know lots of others have.  Thoughts?
>
> +1 from me.  'pretty active' is something of an understatement. :-)
>
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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Victor Stinner
Le mardi 25 décembre 2012, Christian Heimes a écrit :

>  His attitude hasn't improved, too. For example in bug
> http://bugs.python.org/issue16689 he used an offensive title and
> re-opened the ticket *twice* although it was closed by two different and
> highly respectable core devs.
>

Oh, I missed that one. I worked on the previous issue: 16656. I wrote
a long message to explain him that his issue is a Windows issue, it cannot
be solved and using Unicode works correctly. I closed the issue but he
reopened it quickly without trying to understand. He just ignored my
message. He is very annoying.

Victor
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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Chris Jerdonek
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Nick Coghlan  wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Andrew Svetlov  
> wrote:
>> Let's wait a bit.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Guido van Rossum  wrote:
>>> From his response to me he seems to be unaware that there is a problem...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Andrew Svetlov 
>>> wrote:

 I've sent email to Anatoly in Russian describing current situation.
 CC'ed Eli Bendersky and Łukasz Langa as humans who understand Russian
 well enough to be witness for my words.
>
> Did anything come of this? There are now a few more threads on
> python-ideas that are almost pure Anatoly-instigated noise :P

Back in November, I had asked if anyone had ever given him an
official/explicit warning that he would be kicked out if he continued
certain behavior, and it didn't seem that anyone had ever had.  Out of
curiosity, has that been done since then?  I think it is good practice
to issue a warning before kicking someone out.

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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Eli Bendersky
> > Did anything come of this? There are now a few more threads on
> > python-ideas that are almost pure Anatoly-instigated noise :P
>
> Back in November, I had asked if anyone had ever given him an
> official/explicit warning that he would be kicked out if he continued
> certain behavior, and it didn't seem that anyone had ever had.  Out of
> curiosity, has that been done since then?  I think it is good practice
> to issue a warning before kicking someone out.
>

I'd say that the email sent by Andrew Svetlov certainly counts as a
warning. I also recall Guido mentioned he'll speak with Anatoly over Skype.

Eli
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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Chris Jerdonek
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Eli Bendersky  wrote:
>
>> > Did anything come of this? There are now a few more threads on
>> > python-ideas that are almost pure Anatoly-instigated noise :P
>>
>> Back in November, I had asked if anyone had ever given him an
>> official/explicit warning that he would be kicked out if he continued
>> certain behavior, and it didn't seem that anyone had ever had.  Out of
>> curiosity, has that been done since then?  I think it is good practice
>> to issue a warning before kicking someone out.
>
>
> I'd say that the email sent by Andrew Svetlov certainly counts as a warning.
> I also recall Guido mentioned he'll speak with Anatoly over Skype.

Then I guess I'm asking if he was explicitly warned in either that
e-mail or Skype conversation.  You can tell someone, "people don't
like your behavior" without saying "we will kick you off if you
continue."  One states the consequence.

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Re: [python-committers] Commit privs for Serhiy Storchaka?

2012-12-25 Thread Terry Reedy



On 12/25/2012 11:51 AM, Andrew Svetlov wrote:


On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Mark Dickinson  wrote:

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Trent Nelson  wrote:

 He's pretty active on IRC and the tracker.  I haven't dealt with any
 of his patches personally, but I know lots of others have.  Thoughts?


+1 from me.  'pretty active' is something of an understatement. :-)


I believe he was offered push privileges before and declined because of 
a +-0 vote and personal preferences. I can imagine any of 1) he is 
nervous about making a mistake (I was); 2) he does not like the 
mechanics of hg commit and push; 3) he loves writing patches, even of 
the type that many of us would find tedious. I think he should be 
reminded that he can have push access when he wants it, but not pushed 
hard to accept it ;-).


> +1. I committed a lot of Serhiy's patches.

You two have been extremely productive, and you end up with more than 
half the credit. Are you willing to continue?


Terry
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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Łukasz Langa
Dnia 25 gru 2012 o godz. 13:37 Nick Coghlan  napisał(a):

> I'm well and truly to the point of caring far more about the feelings
> of people who get frustrated trying to deal with his obtuseness
> (whether that arises deliberately or through genuine cluelessness)
> than I care about his feelings. He has the entire internet to play on,
> we don't have to allow him access to python.org controlled resources.

+1

I opened this thread so I feel somewhat responsible to carry this out to 
finish. Give me a day or two to contemplate on how to achieve the following:

1. Communicate what happened clearly and openly to our community.

2. Communicate to Anatoly the decision to cut him off.

3. Arrange for feasible technological ways to execute the ban on python.org 
resources, preparing also for vengeful action (which given the history is 
unfortunately likely).

4. Prepare for rectifying unjust PR by the banned person, etc.

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.

What do you think?

I feel very bad that it has come to this but I strongly believe this is 
necessary to protect us as a community.
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Re: [python-committers] Commit privs for Serhiy Storchaka?

2012-12-25 Thread Andrew Svetlov
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Terry Reedy  wrote:
> You two have been extremely productive, and you end up with more than half
> the credit. Are you willing to continue?

Sure, will do!

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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Terry Reedy



On 12/25/2012 8:01 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:

Am 25.12.2012 13:37, schrieb Nick Coghlan:

I'm well and truly to the point of caring far more about the feelings
of people who get frustrated trying to deal with his obtuseness
(whether that arises deliberately or through genuine cluelessness)


I believe it is cluelessness mixed with an idiosyncratic nacissistic 
obstinacy that seems to block him from learning. I no longer take 
anything he says personally.



than I care about his feelings. He has the entire internet to play on,
we don't have to allow him access to python.org controlled resources.


I personally see his signal-noise ratio as about 1/2, but can understand 
if others put it lower (though still above 0/infinity).


The issue Christian mentions below was at most 1/10. On the other hand, 
another recent issue was close to 1/1 and lead to a doc patch.



He is so far beyond the point of political correctness and
respectability that I'm unable to find any words for his behavior in my
dictionary. His attitude hasn't improved, too. For example in bug
http://bugs.python.org/issue16689 he used an offensive title and
re-opened the ticket *twice* although it was closed by two different and
highly respectable core devs.

I hate to kick out people but I see no other way to deal with the issue
anymore. :(


The third close message said clearly 'Do not reopen again.'. If he 
ignores that, then I think his tracker access should be suspended for at 
least a month. (IE, I think that message constituted 'warning'.)


Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

2012-12-25 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Łukasz Langa  wrote:
> Dnia 25 gru 2012 o godz. 13:37 Nick Coghlan  napisał(a):
>
>> I'm well and truly to the point of caring far more about the feelings
>> of people who get frustrated trying to deal with his obtuseness
>> (whether that arises deliberately or through genuine cluelessness)
>> than I care about his feelings. He has the entire internet to play on,
>> we don't have to allow him access to python.org controlled resources.
>
> +1
>
> I opened this thread so I feel somewhat responsible to carry this out to 
> finish. Give me a day or two to contemplate on how to achieve the following:
>
> 1. Communicate what happened clearly and openly to our community.
>
> 2. Communicate to Anatoly the decision to cut him off.
>
> 3. Arrange for feasible technological ways to execute the ban on python.org 
> resources, preparing also for vengeful action (which given the history is 
> unfortunately likely).
>
> 4. Prepare for rectifying unjust PR by the banned person, etc.
>
> 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.
>
> What do you think?
>
> I feel very bad that it has come to this but I strongly believe this is 
> necessary to protect us as a community.

I think #2 is going to be hard to safely write if you intend to send
it to python-dev addressed to Anatoly (which I got from #1). The
shorter the better is my tip. I'm available to review/bikeshed about
this email if you intend to write it. Also, please only post this to
one list, preferably -dev and not -ideas.

#3 can be handled pretty swiftly since the appropriate people are all
involved in this conversation.

On #4, whatever you do, please don't get involved in some
back-and-forth post war and don't go around Reddit trying to further
justify anything. If people talk, and they will, let them.


Please don't write this up in a PEP. We're getting flak from all
directions for code of conduct things on the PyCon/PSF side of things,
and that's along the lines of what this would be. I actually do have
some ideas in that area, but that's for another list and another time.
This should just be an email.
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