Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee
> The last time I was involved with an issue brought to the TC, it had > been brought after zero discussion between the person filing the bug > and the relevant team. Complaining to the TC about a bug that's been > dormant for years only a few days after resurrecting discussion about > it (AIUI) seems similarly aggressive. Unless there was some kind of time critical issue, wouldn't it have been reasonable for the the TC have required a minimum period of discussion between the involved parties first? Diane
Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee
> Steve> Better skills for handling interpersonal conflict can > never > Steve> be a bad thing. However, the Technical Committee exists > as a > Steve> decision-making body of last resort, when consensus is not > Steve> possible (because two parties have incompatible goals, or > Steve> because discussion is not converging on agreement fast > enough > Steve> to matter). > > I think that Debian does need a decision making body of last resort. > I personally think these communication skills are critical for such a > body. I agree. We do need a final decision body. I was thinking it might help if the TC process helped the people involved in the issue had a better chance of feeling like their positions were understood and that hopefully increases the chance they believe the final decision was fair. But mostly I was hoping that sharing & discussing conflict resolution techniques would help us avoid needing to send issues to the TC. Diane signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee
Hi, I only just subscribed and only have read some of the discussion so this may be a bit off topic or already discussed. But I was wondering if the project has thought about explicitly encouraging mentoring in techniques for handling interpersonal conflict and helping members develop interpersonal skills? I know there's active research into managing team conflict, and I bet there are some Debian members who have been more effective at helping other team members that we might be able to learn from. I know we have methods to share technical skills via policies and best practices, but how do we identify and share useful social techniques? For instance I think active listening is a useful technique when trying to develop a consensus about a topic. (e.g. http://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/active_listening#data-tab-how ) But I don't know how many others know about it and there would need to be some adjustment for a distributed team like Debian. Diane
