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Hi, |
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And first, thanks for the work done. |
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I'd like to make a few comments about this Code of Conduct. |
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Over the past years, Gentoo has been organised over a large part of |
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paper-rules, and other theorical precepts. But human nature is just not |
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theorical. And therefore, we have to constantly adapt to people whom we |
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meet, who, what is more, evolve by themselves. I'd like to quote the |
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forum guidelines : |
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/The guidelines outlined in this guide are not intended to be |
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universal and are not to be followed in a rigid way, due to the |
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different nature of situations that might occur. That is, there will |
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be times when all of the guidelines should be partially or |
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completely ignored. The moderator's judgment should be the primary |
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influence when making a decision./ |
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Yes, that's right, we sometimes have to deal with real situations that |
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were not explicitely planned in the guidelines. And we sometimes have to |
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make unilateral decisions (with the agreement of other moderators, of |
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course). My personal point of view is that, sometimes, we should just |
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rely on showing common sense. Yes, this can be quite subjective. But |
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when 100% of the moderation team agrees, maybe common sense is just the |
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right answer to our problems. |
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=> Yes, I think that banning may be the right answer to some recent |
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problems Gentoo had to deal with one of its ex-developer. Allowing this |
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user (he is not a dev anymore) to relay its anger through *our* |
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mailing-list is, I think, a real problem for our *actual* developer |
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base. Some usefull and/or very active developers retired or gave up. |
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And, in fact, this is a shame for Gentoo. |
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Of course, it implies that we must have a group of developers, able to |
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quickly make decisions, as well as to ensure these decisions are |
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adequate. In fact, a "gentoo wise men council". |
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I think our actual council structure is not the right place to do this |
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job, because treating such problems needs to be very fast (meeting once |
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a month does not sound fast enough to me for this particular task). |
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You could then tell me that I was, in the first lines of this mail, |
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complaining about paperwork. I think that this Code of Conduct, and any |
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other document of this kind, should be merged, to allow the same rules |
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to apply *in any part of the Gentoo project*. Respect is just not an |
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option : it should be the rule, whenever you are user, developer, or |
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retired developer, and whatever media you are using. |
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Thanks for reading, |
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Cheers, |
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Hubert. |
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PS : The first sentence of the Preambule could maybe be added to the |
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Gentoo Social Contract ? |
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" Gentoo prides itself on being a community driven distribution and |
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everything we do we do with the best interest of the community at heart." |