Hi, On 02/21/08 16:44, John Sonnenschein wrote:
[cut] > I think it would be a good move for the community to finally express > their will on the matter, so that we can all either move on or ask the > OGB to take further action. I know I for one would be willing to stop > fighting if I saw a definitive mandate from the community that this > were to be the case. Hmmm, since a significant percentage of folks with voting rights are Sun employees (certainly was the case last time) some possible voting results for the questions you pose would inevitably lead to the debate of whether this was a free vote or whether political (or, should I say, paymaster) whips were in action. Sun's not that sort of company, but that won't stop the speculation. I'd be interested in asking voters whether they believe the community should draft and adopt some form of code of conduct to hold members to, and to decide what measures could be used to encourage participants to live within those guidelines (i.e., are they for guidance alone, is there a process that can arise from them, ...). I believe many would say that a community should be self-balancing in this regard without the need to lay down authoritarian guidlines, and I'd have agreed until a year or two or three ago; right now I'm more convinced that the community has not matured enough in this regard and isn't showing signs of doing so, and it would benefit from reigning in the abusive flame-fests that a small but exceptionally vocal number indulge in to (I think) the detriment of all. Just to be clear: I'm not suggesting for a moment that John's posting I'm responding to would be outside any code of conduct :-) It just seemed like a good place to followup with this thought. Cheers Gavin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3249 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20080221/e000441e/attachment.bin>
