Re: [gentoo-project] Items for Council Agenda, May 14

[Roy Bamford]

On 2017.05.11 08:17, Matthias Maier wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017, at 12:00 CDT, "Anthony G. Basile"
> <blueness@g.o> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > The Gentoo Council will be meeting in two weeks.  If anyone has any
> > issues we need to discuss, please let me know and I'll put it on the
> > agenda.  Thanks.
>
> I would like to make a last minute proposal.
>
> Proposal:
>
>   I ask the council to establish a procedure / team to moderate the
>   gentoo-project@ and gentoo-dev@ mailing lists:
>
>    - In general the amount of moderation shall as minimal as possible
>      (in particular developers and long-time contributors
>      unconditionally green-lighted),
>    - but for non-developers abusing the mailing lists for their own
>      agenda their contributions shall be moderated.
>    - Similar to irc operators there shall be a decicated moderator
> team
>      to ensure a quick and timely response.
>    - The moderator team shall be different from council members, and
>      ideally also comrel, such that these groups can act as a check
> and
>      balance.
>
> Rationale:
>
>   The gentoo-dev@ and gentoo-project@ mailing lists nowadays serve
>   an important role for Gentoo development (e.g. mandatory
> announcement,
>   RFCs, PATCH reviews). This function is currently severly impeded due
>   to the high level of noise and unrelated personal agenda [1].
>
> Best,
> Matthias
>
> [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/
>

Team,

We've been there and done that, lets not do it again.
For those that want the history, read up on the Proctors procject.

-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
(Neddyseagoon) a member of
elections
gentoo-ops
forum-mods