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[python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Dec 26 00:31:26 CET 2012 
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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