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Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: |
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> We might need some sort of enforcement for that particular purpose. |
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> While I think that "behavior" proctors are inappropriate, I think that |
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> people with ability to say "move this thread to gentoo-politics or else.." |
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> for non-technical threads, as well as "stop failing to use logic in your |
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> technical discussion or else..." with power to temporarily ban people |
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> for non-compliance could be a useful thing. |
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IMHO, any enforcement needs to come from the developer community themselves. We |
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have to be careful when designating small groups of people with power, because |
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the dark side of power is that can can be misused. The model of developers |
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collectively enforcing works well already: the Portage Tree. While we've had |
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small mishaps here and there, largely, the honesty system used on the tree has |
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worked quite well. I think that can easily extend to keeping -dev technical in |
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nature only. After all, it already works for the wayward users who posts a |
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-user question to -dev. Just a simple, courteous note that such a question is |
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better asked on -user, and off they go. Nothing precludes the same response for |
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a fellow developer posting a non-technical mail into -dev. |
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But anyways, we've got unanimous support so far, so next up: What to call it. |
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My two choices are gentoo-politics or gentoo-project. After looking at |
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debian-project a bit, I think there's no harm in recycling the same moniker[1] |
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for our use as well. Amusingly enough, there's even a thread on their ML today |
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about discussion of of-topic topics. The rest of the content there seems to be |
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right in line with what's been on here too as of late. |
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So, what should we call it? Vote on this! I think the current popular names |
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are the following (in no particular order, just what I've already seen suggested): |
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gentoo-politics |
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gentoo-circuits |
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gentoo-soap |
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gentoo-project |
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gentoo-gossip |
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[1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/ |
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--Kumba |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands |
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do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond |
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