I agree with all Andy said. Steve
stevecoast.com On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, steve brown <st...@evolvedlight.co.uk> > wrote: >> Hey >> >> As BFDL, do you still want a Code of Conduct, or does your wiki page >> suffice? I'm happy to abandon it and get back to coding if it's not >> needed in the new system of "dictatorship" (which I support). >> >> I've updated it to merge in various changes suggested by people, and >> especially lots of stuff stolen from the great US version. > > The code of conduct is great, and I'd love to see you work on it > further. I'd like see the community looking after itself, with a > sensible escalation path. > > self control > common sense > advice from peers > guidelines > > policies > 'official' warnings > interventions > backstop > > What we've come to recently is the final five steps have been pretty > much non-existent, and things have broken down when the advice from > peers isn't being taken on board. Hopefully very few people need to > even get as far as requiring written guidelines on etiquette, but I > guess it turns out we need them. Your code of conduct would play an > important part of the guidelines / policies level. > > Steve has basically made himself backstop. All the things that come in > front are more important to work on and get right, but at least now > the buck has somewhere to (eventually) stop. I'd hope that nothing > ever gets escalated that far though. > > Cheers, > Andy > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk