Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 November 2013 16:58, Ezio Melotti wrote: > Hi, > as I already mentioned in a message on a previous thread, I'm -1 on banning > him. > Last time this issue came up I contacted him and we discussed about > these problems several times. For a while things got better and hhis > behavior got a

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 November 2013 15:23, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Nick, > > I think we've seen the issue from every possible side now. I trust your > judgment that he has pulled this trick once too many times. So please > implement the ban. Or wait until the next infraction -- that's up to you. > Either way, s

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Ezio Melotti
Hi, as I already mentioned in a message on a previous thread, I'm -1 on banning him. Last time this issue came up I contacted him and we discussed about these problems several times. For a while things got better and hhis behavior got a bit better and his posts less frequent, but lately he got "ac

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Ned Deily
I concur that it is time to make a decision and move one. I will support whatever we decide. I want to apologize for not being clear in my earlier reply. FTR, a few clarifications: On Nov 29, 2013, at 20:25 , Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 30 November 2013 08:41, Ned Deily wrote: >> It is a prob

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/29/2013 9:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On ven., 2013-11-29 at 20:01 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: I think an appropriate first signal would be to make it so he cannot change headers. I wasn't thinking only about the bug tracker, but also the MLs. Right, you are worried about retaliation o

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
Nick, I think we've seen the issue from every possible side now. I trust your judgment that he has pulled this trick once too many times. So please implement the ban. Or wait until the next infraction -- that's up to you. Either way, since the archives of this list are public, our deliberations wi

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:41:22 -0800, Ned Deily wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2013, at 13:51 , Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > On ven., 2013-11-29 at 13:16 -0800, Ned Deily wrote: > > >> Why is it that we find him so annoying, enough to advocate fairly > >> drastic measures like banning? There have been an

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Ethan Furman
On 11/29/2013 02:17 PM, R. David Murray wrote: PS: Maybe we could set up some mailing list software that, every time Anatoly starts a new thread, and periodically during it, it posts an "Anatoly FAQ"? Heh, there's a couple other names we could add to that list, too! ;) -- ~Ethan~ ___

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 November 2013 08:41, Ned Deily wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2013, at 13:51 , Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> On ven., 2013-11-29 at 13:16 -0800, Ned Deily wrote: >>> Right. We can't change other people's behavior. We can at best >>> encourage change. In this case, I'm doubtful that banning would ser

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 November 2013 06:12, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> If someone turns away from the community because we decided we didn't want >> someone who is rude participating and ruining the experience for others then >> I'm fine with losing that person's participation just like anyone who >> chooses not t

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On ven., 2013-11-29 at 20:01 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> I think an appropriate first signal would be to make it so he cannot > >> change headers. > > > > I wasn't thinking only about the bug tracker, but also the MLs. > > Right, you are worried about retaliation on the MLs if he were *banned*

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/29/2013 7:17 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On ven., 2013-11-29 at 18:11 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: On 11/29/2013 2:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Then I don't know where his behaviour is most problematic: on the tracker or the MLs? If we only ban him from the tracker, I'm afraid he'll start mak

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 30.11.2013 01:14, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Nov 29, 2013, at 11:38 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> BTW: Rather than actually ban Anatoly from the various mailing lists, >> I think setting his moderation flag would be a better approach. He'd >> get a note that his emails are being held for moderati

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On ven., 2013-11-29 at 18:11 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 11/29/2013 2:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > Then I don't know where his behaviour is most problematic: on the > > tracker or the MLs? > > If we only ban him from the tracker, I'm afraid he'll start making > > "here's an issue I can't

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 29, 2013, at 11:38 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >BTW: Rather than actually ban Anatoly from the various mailing lists, >I think setting his moderation flag would be a better approach. He'd >get a note that his emails are being held for moderation and the >moderators could then screen the emails

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/29/2013 2:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Then I don't know where his behaviour is most problematic: on the tracker or the MLs? If we only ban him from the tracker, I'm afraid he'll start making "here's an issue I can't post on the tracker because I'm banned" posts on the mailing-list... Per

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> Here's another idea. Ban him temporarily from the tracker and the >> lists(*) and tell him that to be unbanned he has to talk to me, and to me >> only. I will then negotiat

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Here's another idea. Ban him temporarily from the tracker and the lists(*) > and tell him that to be unbanned he has to talk to me, and to me only. I > will then negotiate a cool-off period and posting guidelines with him. If > he violat

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/29/2013 10:04 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: I just want to make sure others know that Georg has warned Anatoly that if he continues to re-open a specific issue he will lose his tracker privileges (http://bugs.python.org/issue19822#msg204696). I stand behind his warning and will support anyone who

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Ned Deily
On Nov 29, 2013, at 13:51 , Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On ven., 2013-11-29 at 13:16 -0800, Ned Deily wrote: >> Right. We can't change other people's behavior. We can at best >> encourage change. In this case, I'm doubtful that banning would serve >> as an encouragement. > > Personally, I don't

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 29.11.2013 22:37, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > [bunch of stuff I agree with :-)] > >> I think it would be hard to justify to the world banning Anatoly for his >> relatively minor annoyances when it took so long to do something about one >> help

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Ethan Furman
On 11/29/2013 10:28 AM, Christian Heimes wrote: Perhaps it's time to try a more technical approach and restrict modifications of status, resolution, version and priority to core devs or CLA signers. That could stop his rampage without further discussion. +1 -- ~Ethan~

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:16:32 -0800, Ned Deily wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2013, at 12:12 , Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > The question is, how effective will the alternative solution > > (banning him) be? I worry that it's just going to make things worse. > > I think that is a legitimate concern and

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Ethan Furman
On 11/29/2013 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Here's another idea. Ban him temporarily from the tracker and the lists(*) and tell him that to be unbanned he has to talk to me, and to me only. I will then negotiate a cool-off period and posting guidelines with him. If he violate those he will

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On ven., 2013-11-29 at 13:16 -0800, Ned Deily wrote: > Right. We can't change other people's behavior. We can at best > encourage change. In this case, I'm doubtful that banning would serve > as an encouragement. Personally, I don't see it as an encouragement, rather a solution. The "temporary"

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Ned Deily wrote: [bunch of stuff I agree with :-)] > I think it would be hard to justify to the world banning Anatoly for his > relatively minor annoyances when it took so long to do something about one > help vampire whose behavior and the community's reaction se

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Ned Deily
On Nov 29, 2013, at 12:12 , Guido van Rossum wrote: > The question is, how effective will the alternative solution (banning him) > be? I worry that it's just going to make things worse. I think that is a legitimate concern and likely outcome. > The key thing to understand here is that you can

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On ven., 2013-11-29 at 21:07 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: > Am 29.11.2013 21:05, schrieb Guido van Rossum: > > Here's another idea. Ban him temporarily from the tracker and the > > lists(*) and tell him that to be unbanned he has to talk to me, and > > to me only. I will then negotiate a cool-of

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: >> >>> Am 29.11.2013 19:22, schrieb Tim Peters: >>> > I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for me

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 29.11.2013 21:05, schrieb Guido van Rossum: > Here's another idea. Ban him temporarily from the tracker and the > lists(*) and tell him that to be unbanned he has to talk to me, and > to me only. I will then negotiate a cool-off period and posting > guidelines with him. If he violate those he w

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
Here's another idea. Ban him temporarily from the tracker and the lists(*) and tell him that to be unbanned he has to talk to me, and to me only. I will then negotiate a cool-off period and posting guidelines with him. If he violate those he will automatically be banned permanently (or at least for

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On ven., 2013-11-29 at 11:40 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > If you can get a majority of the committers to vote to ban him we > should do it -- but that's a high bar (many committers probably don't > care enough to vote). Well, many are probably inactive enough to not even notice this discuss

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On ven., 2013-11-29 at 10:56 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Georg Brandl > > wrote: > > Am 29.11.2013 19:22, schrieb Tim Peters: > > > I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works real

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > >> Am 29.11.2013 19:22, schrieb Tim Peters: >> > I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for me - try >> it ;-) >> >> It's a nice option, I agree -- but someone has

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On ven., 2013-11-29 at 10:56 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Georg Brandl > wrote: > Am 29.11.2013 19:22, schrieb Tim Peters: > > I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for > me - try it ;-) > > >

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Tim Peters wrote: > >> I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for me - try it >> ;-) > > > I've filtered his emails to the trash for close to two years now so I'm > only aware of him when

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 29.11.2013 19:22, schrieb Tim Peters: > > I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for me - try it > ;-) > > It's a nice option, I agree -- but someone has to triage his issues, or > they > will rot in the tracker for eter

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Tim Peters wrote: > I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for me - try it > ;-) I've filtered his emails to the trash for close to two years now so I'm only aware of him when issues like this come up. He doesn't get to come in here and act ho

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 29.11.2013 19:22, schrieb Tim Peters: > I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for me - try it ;-) > It's a nice option, I agree -- but someone has to triage his issues, or they will rot in the tracker for eternity. Georg ___ pyth

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 29.11.2013 19:14, schrieb Guido van Rossum: > Have you read the latest on the python-dev thread? Several other people are > now > also complaining. The only thing that makes sense to me is nothing -- banning > Anatoly now is just going to cause a PR disaster. There's no reason for banning - he

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 29.11.2013 19:14, schrieb Guido van Rossum: > Have you read the latest on the python-dev thread? Several other > people are now also complaining. The only thing that makes sense to > me is nothing -- banning Anatoly now is just going to cause a PR > disaster. Not responding at all will most like

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Tim Peters
I pretty much ignore Anatoly, and that works really well for me - try it ;-) ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
Have you read the latest on the python-dev thread? Several other people are now also complaining. The only thing that makes sense to me is nothing -- banning Anatoly now is just going to cause a PR disaster. Not responding at all will most likely cause it to blow over (surely they will collectively

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Eli Bendersky
Brett, +1 from me. But I suggest we wait for Guido to express his opinion before taking any action. In a recent private correspondence with Christian (and myself CCd) Guido expressed reluctance to act against Anatoly at this time. Eli On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > I ju

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

2013-11-29 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a bit curious, but do people think Anatoly is now behaving more > constructively than before? He does seem to post *less*, otherwise... > > After all, he's just sent another rant about the "community process" in > which the

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 29.11.2013 16:04, schrieb Brett Cannon: > I just want to make sure others know that Georg has warned Anatoly > that if he continues to re-open a specific issue he will lose his > tracker privileges (http://bugs.python.org/issue19822#msg204696). I > stand behind his warning and will support anyon

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

2013-11-29 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I worked with many and various contributors on the Python projects last 3 years. All contributors made a lot of effort to understand the process (which is complex and not well documented), try to find information by themself (ask find the right place to ask questions like "how can I find infor

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

2013-11-29 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a bit curious, but do people think Anatoly is now behaving more > constructively than before? He does seem to post *less*, otherwise... > > After all, he's just sent another rant about the "community process" in > which the

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

2013-11-29 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Alex Gaynor wrote: > I'm not sure if it's because I'm reading the lists more, or if he's > actually posting more, but I definitely seem to see him more frequently. > No, it's definitely picked up. He went dormant for a while and now he is back. > And almost n

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

2013-11-29 Thread Alex Gaynor
I'm not sure if it's because I'm reading the lists more, or if he's actually posting more, but I definitely seem to see him more frequently. And almost none of it is positive contribution, it's almost entirely people wasting time trying to humor him. I'm honestly not sure I've ever seen a discussio

[python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution (again)

2013-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, I'm a bit curious, but do people think Anatoly is now behaving more constructively than before? He does seem to post *less*, otherwise... After all, he's just sent another rant about the "community process" in which the word CLA seems to appear multiple times: https://mail.python.org/pipe

[python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-29 Thread Brett Cannon
I just want to make sure others know that Georg has warned Anatoly that if he continues to re-open a specific issue he will lose his tracker privileges (http://bugs.python.org/issue19822#msg204696). I stand behind his warning and will support anyone who enforces it. I would suggest that if he does