Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

[Luis Francisco Araujo]

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

gentoo-project++

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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

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