Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:25:23 -0500 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] The previous doc had no "moral weight", so to > speak, because it was imposed on devs without any real discussion, and > that's made it hard to enforce. Moreover, there's long been notable > distrust of devrel,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread David Shakaryan
Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> Then why are there public archives? >> > > Note the subtle difference between "receiving" and "reading in public > archives". Some people may prefer their mail client. Disallowing someone from receiving mail from the list just to make it possibly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 01:25, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Ubuntu uses "Community Council". I suggested "Community Relations". > *Shrug* "Community Relations" sounds fine to me. > > Here's my problem with it: essentially what you're arguing for the > proctors to be is the same as what devrel should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Philip Webb
070314 Marius Mauch wrote: > Why does this have to be rushed so quickly? > Just to "fight" the bad PR caused by the distrowatch article? As a user for 3.5 years & an observer who has read this thread, but started deleting the original abusive thread as soon as it got going, I'ld say Council has ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
Robin H. Johnson wrote: [Tue Mar 13 2007, 06:05:10PM CDT] > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:53PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > * Can we find a better name than "the Proctors", please? > > Yes, that's a completely petty point, but it was the first > > one that came to mind. > Suggestions welcom

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Luca Barbato
Grant Goodyear wrote: > Thanks for the work on the new doc; it's much appreciated. > > Despite how critical I'm being, I really do appreciate the work that > has gone into this so far. Thank you very much. +1 lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:05:10 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:53PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > * Can we find a better name than "the Proctors", please? > > Yes, that's a completely petty point, but it was the first > > one that came to mi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Wernfried Haas
[replying here as it already cleared out a couple of things i wanted to ask] On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:19:03PM +, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > 3. The proctors would be given the access required to execute any > suspensions or similar actions. Please define access. Does that mean they get to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Brown
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:24 +, Richard Brown wrote: >> Why is it a such a problem to be clear? The council is proposing changes >> that affect us all, giving us two days to discuss it, and then a council >> member is shouting at someone when he says he thinks the CoC i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:53PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > * Can we find a better name than "the Proctors", please? > Yes, that's a completely petty point, but it was the first > one that came to mind. Suggestions welcome. We were stuck for other suitable names, and it was my own suggest

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread George Prowse
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:00 +0100, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: Uhh, no. This gets enforced on devs and users alike. I wouldn't bring it up in the first place, but we've had previous examples with devs calling other devs not so kind things and to my knowle

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:53PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > * Can we find a better name than "the Proctors", please? > Yes, that's a completely petty point, but it was the first > one that came to mind. +1, i think i haven't ever heard that word before, and it sounds quite empty to me as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Simon Stelling
Thanks for the write-up :) | Receiving one (or more) warnings. Usually, you wouldn't be banned for | a single warning, but it might happen if we feel your infraction is | severe enough. We consider banning to be pretty serious; we take each | situation on a case-by-case basis and make sure we alw

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Florian D.
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Hiya all, As some of you are already aware, I was at the last Council meeting given a Task. This Task was to draft a proposed Code of Conduct for Gentoo, and a scheme for enforcing it. The current version of this proposal can be found at http://dev.gentoo.org/~christe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 22:09, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Thanks for the work on the new doc; it's much appreciated. > Despite how critical I'm being, I really do appreciate the work that > has gone into this so far. Thank you very much. I agree on all points. -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:24 +, Richard Brown wrote: > Why is it a such a problem to be clear? The council is proposing changes > that affect us all, giving us two days to discuss it, and then a council > member is shouting at someone when he says he thinks the CoC is unclear? I am shouting at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
Thanks for the work on the new doc; it's much appreciated. Here's some comments, in no particularly good order: * Can we find a better name than "the Proctors", please? Yes, that's a completely petty point, but it was the first one that came to mind. > As some of you are already aware, I was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Brown
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > What exactly do previous examples have to do with us saying that our > past efforts didn't work and our trying to come up with a *new* way of > doing these things to not repeat past problems/mistakes? > > Let me just clarify this. > > We don't care how things were done i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 13/03/07, Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:01:33 + "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > UTC and GMT being the same, right? so 2100UTC is exactly nine hours > after 1200GMT? For all relevant purposes, yes. -- Tyvm. -- Q: What will happen in the Aft

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:01:33 + "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > UTC and GMT being the same, right? so 2100UTC is exactly nine hours > after 1200GMT? For all relevant purposes, yes. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 13/03/07, Christel Dahlskjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiya all, Any input will have to be received by Thursday, 15 March, 1200GMT in order to be useful; the Council will be voting on it later that day at 2100UTC. UTC and GMT being the same, right? so 2100UTC is exactly nine hours after 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:15 +, Steve Long wrote: > Maybe there should be an ethical/behavioural element to the dev-exam, so > that prospective devs see that being able to work with others is needed as > much as technical proficiency, dunno. But I'm glad things appear to be > changing for the be

[gentoo-dev] Re: Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-13 Thread Duncan
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:45:09 +: > Duncan wrote: >> Has anyone stopped to think... he might have an ulterior motive here? >> >> Clearly, it's trolling, the quote above should demonstrate that beyond >> doubt. However,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:00 +0100, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > > Uhh, no. This gets enforced on devs and users alike. > I wouldn't bring it up in the first place, but we've had previous examples > with devs calling other devs not so kind things and to my knowledge it didn't > result in an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:38 +, Duncan wrote: > Perhaps if infra doesn't want to hassle read-only mode and prefers a full > mail ban, mention could be made of gmane for those who wish to continue > read-only access. I think we'd point people to http://archives.gentoo.org instead. -- Chris G

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi, And first, thanks for the work done. I'd like to make a few comments about this Code of Conduct. Over the past years, Gentoo has been organised over a large part of paper-rules, and other theorical precepts. But human nature is just not theorical. And therefore, we have to constantly ada

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi, And first, thanks for the work done. I'd like to make a few comments about this Code of Conduct. Over the past years, Gentoo has been organised over a large part of paper-rules, and other theorical precepts. But human nature is just not theorical. And therefore, we have to constantly ad

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hi again. Thank you all for your input so far, which I will evaluate together with my trusted mentourage, er, the council. I'd just like to clarify a couple of things that seem to have left a few of you confused: 1. The Proctors is not a Userrel Sub project. The Code of Conduct would apply to eve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Dan Meltzer wrote: > On 3/13/07, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was trying to show spb that reading personal attacks against oneself in > > this forum is not a nice feeling. It was a stupid, priggish thing to do. > > Ya think? adding sarcastic replies to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] dont use `which` in ebuilds

2007-03-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > The scripts installed by these ebuilds also use which: > sys-kernel/module-rebuild: that's a different issue ... this is a Linux-only package, so it can "safely" depend on the behavior of the which app that is installed onto our Linux hosts

[gentoo-dev] Re: Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Steve Long
Paul de Vrieze wrote: > ps. I would also like to suggest that the devrels looks at things like > micro bans. That is, banning someone for a couple of days from sending to > the mailing list. This could be effective against e.g. people who continue > to feed trolls after being warned not to do so.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 3/13/07, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Duncan wrote: > Has anyone stopped to think... he might have an ulterior motive here? > > Clearly, it's trolling, the quote above should demonstrate that beyond > doubt. However, one must ask what the reason might be for such > deliberate trolls.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-13 Thread Steve Long
Duncan wrote: > Has anyone stopped to think... he might have an ulterior motive here? > > Clearly, it's trolling, the quote above should demonstrate that beyond > doubt. However, one must ask what the reason might be for such > deliberate trolls. > Yes it was, and I apologise unreservedly both to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:10:21 -0400 Chris Gianelloni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, mlmmj doesn't have this sort of feature. Instead, it has a more >> procmail-like access list. We can use that to put users into a >> read-only status, by filtering for them and denyi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:10:21 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, mlmmj doesn't have this sort of feature. Instead, it has a more > procmail-like access list. We can use that to put users into a > read-only status, by filtering for them and denying posting from them, > but th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 15:11, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > We should be enforcing this on all channels. It shouldn't be "OK" to be > an asshole on one medium and not another. Ack. > > -What are the appeal options if any? > > Council. Then it should perhaps be mentioned in the proposal. > > So the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread expose
Duncan wrote: > As an alternative [...] the list is carried by gmane.org [...] There also would be http://archives.gentoo.org/ so those users also wouldnt be dependent on a service not run by gentoo. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Duncan
Michael Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:30:39 -0400: > My other item (you knew there'd be at least one more :) is something I > brought up on irc yesterday, namely (if its feasible with infra) > downgrading a subscription to read-only

[gentoo-dev] Re: TeX maintainer needed

2007-03-13 Thread Christian Faulhammer
"Andrey Falko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/12/07, Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as nattfodd and ehmsen won't be working on TeX for Gentoo anymore, > > we need one or more new maintainer/s. Primary goal is to bring a > > working ebuild of TeXLive 2007 into Portage, as the cur

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:01 +0100, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:32, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > > First of all, I think most part of the code is just common sense. That's > > also the reason that it is not explicit about many things. Strictly defined > > rules don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:34 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:28:50 -0400 > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 07:30 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > > > banning/suspending a user from a mailing list. They would retain the > > > right to r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Michael Cummings
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:28:50 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 07:30 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > > banning/suspending a user from a mailing list. They would retain the > > right to receive the mail, just not comment for a short period (and > > hopefully

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 07:30 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > banning/suspending a user from a mailing list. They would retain the > right to receive the mail, just not comment for a short period (and > hopefully cooler heads will prevail, yada, etc.). You mean the privilege to receive the mails, r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:32, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > First of all, I think most part of the code is just common sense. That's > also the reason that it is not explicit about many things. Strictly defined > rules don't apply in all situations, and jerks find ways around them or to > argue that

Re: [gentoo-dev] TeX maintainer needed

2007-03-13 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On 3/13/07, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/12/07, Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > as nattfodd and ehmsen won't be working on TeX for Gentoo anymore, we It's sad to hear this. However I didn't see this mentioned in bug #168177 nor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread George Prowse
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: Hiya all, As some of you are already aware, I was at the last Council meeting given a Task. This Task was to draft a proposed Code of Conduct for Gentoo, and a scheme for enforcing it. The current version of this proposal can be found at http://dev.gentoo.org/~christe

Re: [gentoo-dev] TeX maintainer needed

2007-03-13 Thread Andrey Falko
On 3/12/07, Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, as nattfodd and ehmsen won't be working on TeX for Gentoo anymore, we need one or more new maintainer/s. Primary goal is to bring a working ebuild of TeXLive 2007 into Portage, as the current used and working one (teTeX) is de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:05, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > I wrote to Christel earlier today about this. But AFAIR we usually have at > least a week to discuss such proposals. Apart from that enforcing our users > this code of conduct with only three days of discussion is not what I find >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:05, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote: > http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.2/channels/chan_sip.c?r1=580 >52&r2=56230 Woops just disregard that paste in the middle of it all:-) My mouse is severly lacking on this box while compiling :-( -- Sune Kloppenborg

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
Hiya, On Tuesday 13 March 2007 03:12, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > Hiya all, > > As some of you are already aware, I was at the last Council meeting > given a Task. This Task was to draft a proposed Code of Conduct for > Gentoo, and a scheme for enforcing it. The current version of this > proposal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Michael Cummings
Heyas Christel, A few quick comments - the document specifically calls out the gentoo-dev mailing list (for obvious reasons in the last week or two), but never identifies any other part of "Gentoo's official communication infrastructure". While I completely understand the intent, the scope might w

Re: [gentoo-dev] dont use `which` in ebuilds

2007-03-13 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:15 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 12 March 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > instead, since we require bash for our ebuilds, use the builtin `type > > > -p` > > > > err i botched that ;) > > > > `type -p` is almost a

Re: [gentoo-dev] dont use `which` in ebuilds

2007-03-13 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > ./eclass/vdr-plugin.eclass: >if which md5sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then ^^ fixed Matthias -- Matthias Schwarzott (zzam) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Rob C
On 13/03/07, Christel Dahlskjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiya all, As some of you are already aware, I was at the last Council meeting given a Task. This Task was to draft a proposed Code of Conduct for Gentoo, and a scheme for enforcing it. The current version of this proposal can be found

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Rob C
On 13/03/07, Christel Dahlskjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiya all, As some of you are already aware, I was at the last Council meeting given a Task. This Task was to draft a proposed Code of Conduct for Gentoo, and a scheme for enforcing it. The current version of this proposal can be found