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On Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:19 pm, Deedra Waters wrote: |
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> The only thing i really |
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> want to change, is that i think that a commitee of say 3 to 5 |
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> people handles a complaint from beginning to end. |
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I am very surprised that you suggest merging the investigative |
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and judiciary branches of devrel, and I am firmly opposed to |
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that. It was discussed and agreed upon that having the same |
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persons fulfilling both roles was a conflict of interest and |
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should be avoided whenever possible. Michael's proposal, which |
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we voted on just a few months ago, was all about this separation |
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of power, and Paul just illustrated why having someone both |
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policing and judging can lead to abuse. |
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You now suggest going back (in some ways) to how things were done |
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before, even though devrel was blamed for the way the last |
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incident was handled, and even though the separation of devrel |
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in two groups was suggested to help avoiding abuse and lack of |
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transparency. The reason you give for undoing this change is |
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having two separate groups is too complicated. You say this even |
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though the system has not yet been tested for more than a few |
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months, and even though you said yourself that this whole |
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procedure is very seldom needed, and thus does not require an |
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important amount of the developers' every day work. |
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As for the suggestion that the council is there to appeal should |
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devrel abuse its power, I would rather we design our structure |
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to make it work correctly in the first place rather than rely on |
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someone else correcting our mistakes. An appeal to the council |
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should be considered an exceptional procedure, and if the |
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council ever has to overrule devrel, this would imply devrel has |
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utterly failed to do its job properly. (And devrel would be in |
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for another well-deserved backlash.) |
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Regards, |
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Olivier Fisette (ribosome) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Scientific applications, Developer relations |