Le Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : > Hello =)
Hello again :) > Sometimes technical Debian discussions (mailing lists, bug reports, > blog posts, etc.) become personal flame-wars. > > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > acceptable for the Debian project? > What would you do to reduce those? One way to cool a heated discussion is to add a lot of ice on it. Very few of our communication media really need to be repsonsive in real time. Especially on our mailing lists, I would not mind if the admins would have a big red button that would suddenly delay any email posted there of a couple of hours. I think that some mailing list systems implement that capacity. Of course, self-cooling is much more friendly. Even in constructive threads, I try to limit myself to one or two messages per day when they are on central mailing lists. I really invite the other subscribers to do so. In order to get as many insights as possible, we must remember to keep the door open to other contributors. And if after two days of absence, there is a 100-mails thread in their mailbox, I think that the door is closed. Also, as a DPL I will make an effort to prepare neutral summaries that resurect important discussions that had a productive part, but were killed because one part of the thread exploded in a deluge of emails. It is important that people have the guarantee that their opinion will be taken into account even if there has already been 50 emails exchanged by other persons. This will be another incentive for everybody to just press the delete button and let things cool down. I would also welcome much stricter policy about voluminous off-topic discussions, and invite the listmasters to ban for a couple of days people engaging in this behaviour. Many personal flame-wars fall under this category. In addition, I think that we should reduce our institutional tolerance to aggression and insults. We already often underestimate how we can hurt others with simple words and direct criticisms. Attacks are unacceptable. This said I think that everybody loses control sometimes in their life, and we should welcome sincere excuses. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315151317.ga32...@kunpuu.plessy.org
