Oh, by the way, should we have two different choices: remove the
commit bit from a core dev (downgrade a core dev as a regular
contributor) and ban a core dev?

Victor
Le jeu. 18 oct. 2018 à 00:03, Victor Stinner <vstin...@redhat.com> a écrit :
>
> Le mer. 17 oct. 2018 à 21:09, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> a écrit :
> > Honestly, I think an independent group managing these issues is the right 
> > way to handle them. I’m loathe to bring it up because the situation was a 
> > long time ago, and has been resolved, but I’ve personally had to engage the 
> > CoC process in regards to another core developers behavior. At the time the 
> > way that was handled was contacting the PSF board, if the process was 
> > instead to contact python-committers or something I likely would’t have 
> > done it at all. I think it is important that if someone feels they’re 
> > having a problem in a particular space, that they feel they have an 
> > impartial and independent group of people to raise those concerns with.
> >
> > With regards to whether the CoC can evict a core developer of Python.. I 
> > think it absolutely needs to be able to do that. Otherwise it’s basically 
> > stating that it’s fine for someone to harass someone else… as long as the 
> > person doing the harassing is a core developer. If anything, core 
> > developers should be held to a higher, not a lower standard. Obviously 
> > excommunication is not step 1 on any CoC, and such a thing would only be 
> > used after a history of repeated, on going unacceptable behavior, but if 
> > the CoC doesn’t have any teeth, than it’s not worth the metaphorical paper 
> > it’s written on.
> >
> > So, when it comes to the conduct we expect from people, core developers 
> > should not be treated specially in either expectations nor process.
>
> Ok, now in the case of my PEP 8015: do you think that the "Python Core
> Board" should be involved in the process to evict a core developer of
> Python?
>
>    https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8015/#python-core-board
>
> For example, can we imagine that a core developer would only be
> evicted if the PSF conduct WG *and* the Python Core Board would agree
> to evict the core dev? Such situation should be very exceptional, and
> it may be unpopular if the conduct WG and the Python Core Board
> disagree :-(
>
> If the Python Core Board can block an eviction (have "a veto" on the
> final vote), the risk is that friends of the Board are "protected" by
> their friendship. And it also opens the question of an evicting a
> member of the Python Core Board in case of extremely severe Code of
> Conduct violation... But this question can be asked as well for
> members of the PSF conduct WG :-)
>
> I don't know the answers to my question. But maybe it would be safer
> for everyone that the *worst* case (evict a core dev) would be defined
> somewhere, as in a PEP.
>
> Victor
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