On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, steve brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey > > As BFDL, do you still want a Code of Conduct, or does your wiki page > suffice? I'm happy to abandon it and get back to coding if it's not > needed in the new system of "dictatorship" (which I support). > > I've updated it to merge in various changes suggested by people, and > especially lots of stuff stolen from the great US version.
The code of conduct is great, and I'd love to see you work on it further. I'd like see the community looking after itself, with a sensible escalation path. self control > common sense > advice from peers > guidelines > policies > 'official' warnings > interventions > backstop What we've come to recently is the final five steps have been pretty much non-existent, and things have broken down when the advice from peers isn't being taken on board. Hopefully very few people need to even get as far as requiring written guidelines on etiquette, but I guess it turns out we need them. Your code of conduct would play an important part of the guidelines / policies level. Steve has basically made himself backstop. All the things that come in front are more important to work on and get right, but at least now the buck has somewhere to (eventually) stop. I'd hope that nothing ever gets escalated that far though. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
