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Hi. |
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The following document is part of a mail I've sent to the proctors@ |
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alias 6 weeks ago and that was my contribution to a discussion we were |
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having about the CoC and the proctors. |
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At the time I didn't submit that document here, because there was no |
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such ml and we were still having an initial internal discussion. |
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Since the team has yet to publish any document on this due to a variety |
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of reasons and that we've been accused of not working on this issue (I |
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say we, as a former member of the team), I think it's important to show |
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that claim to be false. |
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This document, "Proctors - Questions", and my view on this issue, |
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"Proctors - Answers" are also available on their original format on |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmbsvicetto/proctors/ |
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In this document I tried to raise the questions I thought the proctors |
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needed to address or clarify in order to be able to carry out their work. |
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This is my personal and humble opinion. Although some members agreed |
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with most of my questions / answers, these 2 documents in no way |
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constitute the team's opinion at that moment or now, let alone define |
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their policy. |
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Gentoo Proctors |
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General Applicability / Enforcement Questions (to be answered by council?) |
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What medium/channels? |
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Initial proposal included all #gentoo-* IRC channels, the MLs, Bugzilla |
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and Forums. |
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IRC is problematic both technically, users can evade bans and we can't |
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control all #gentoo-* channels. So, what channels? Do we want proctors |
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to moderate #gentoo-dev? |
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#gentoo-chat / OTW - I've asked this before and the answers that were |
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provided would in my view imply a change in the current status of those |
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channels |
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What powers? |
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What philosophy: punishments/preventive action? |
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What are the available options for the different mediums (we need the |
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input from infra) |
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Do we want/accept penalties/remedies crossing mediums? (Do we want a ban |
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from forums to extend to bugzilla?) |
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Do we want/accept permanent bans? |
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What audience? |
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Do we address users and devs? (council said everyone) |
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What powers can/will the proctors have over devs? |
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Do proctors act on devs directly or through devrel? |
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What proctors? |
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Are proctors elected or appointed and by whom? |
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Are members elected/appointed for a mandate or for ad-eternum? |
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Who controls the proctors? (who watches the watchman?) |
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My answers to the final section on "what proctors", included some |
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possibilities that clearly go beyond the current Gentoo metastructure |
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and that I felt could / should be applied to other teams as well. |
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I can conceive them as being the basis for a proposal to restructure the |
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current organization, for example by requiring certain teams leads to be |
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elected and or by defining a system of checks and balances that tries to |
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ensure the council can define a direction for Gentoo but at the same |
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time limiting their ability to staff teams. To be clear, this search for |
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checks and balances was in no way motivated by any feeling of abuse of |
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the current council or any of its members. |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel |
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