Since Raphael asked for support, I am hereby publicly declaring that I support such idea and the list creation.
Cheers, Ondrej On Tue, Dec 9, 2014, at 15:31, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Package: lists.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > with the adoption of the code of conduct, more and more people started > to respond to persons who do not follow its spirit, to let them know > that the message was inappropriate in one way or another. Some do it > publicly and other do it privately. > > This is good. Unfortunately, when such a message is sent publicly on the > same mailing list, it oftens degenerates in a small sub-thread. > > This is bad because it generates useless tension and because its > brings down the signal/noise ratio on the given list. At the same time, > those discussions are also necessary to have some balance and remember > collectively that we do not want to over-regulate our mailing lists > either. > > Thus I would like to have a new mailing list called > "[email protected]" that moderators (i.e. contributors > who are telling others that their behaviour was inappropriate, or > contributors refuting such claims) would use. The complaint would go the > interested person and would be carbon copied to this list. > > This has multiple benefits: > - people acting as moderators get a better feel of what can be done and > what can't be done (by following what others are doing they > auto-regulate > themselves) > - listmasters can monitor the list to detect regular offenders and take > more informed decisions for (temporary) bans > - meta-discussions no longer pollute our work mailing lists > > To not exclude moderators who are unwilling to send complaints publicly, > I believe that the mailing list should be private (but archived with > archives accessible to DD only) and only open to Debian developers by > default. Possibly non-DD could join but they would need the invitation of > a DD. > > A copy of this mail is sent to debian-project, both to have some public > discussion of this idea (in that case, please do not keep the bug in > copy), and to sollicit a few "ack" from other DD who are already > doing that kind of moderation work (or would like to start doing it in a > more organized way). > > Thank you. > > FTR, this idea was initially submitted in a debian-private thread > discussing the code of conduct. > -- > Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer > > Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html > Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
