On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Misty Stanley-Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are a few people who routinely email me privately about non-personal > matters where I'm not the only one with the answer. In many cases I reply, > adding dev@ to the CC, and I've also asked the people to use the mailing > lists instead of emailing me privately, but the message has obviously not > gotten through. I'm not just being fussy and I know I'm not the only one. > Taking it off-list has consequences: > > - information is siloed / single points of failure > - if I'm on vacation or otherwise not immediately available, you're > blocked from getting the thing done > - others lose out on the chance to contribute to the community > - decisions made via private email actually violate our community > standards, except in some very specific instances such as software security > bugs > - it's annoying and exclusionary > - it can be intimidating > - it can lead to inadvertently or unintentionally taking credit for > someone else's work > > I'd like to propose that we add something to the code of conduct to > discourage using private email threads in the hbase community except for > social or personal conversations. Thoughts? > > > Lets try CoC. We've not done that before (I like the above starter list). Repeated encouragements, suggestions, and even threats don't seem to work. The practice goes on. Add a link to here too [1]: " St.Ack 1. http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html#avoid-private-discussions
