On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > - Wrap your lines at 80 characters or less for ordinary discussion. Lines > > longer than 80 characters are acceptable for computer-generated output > > (e.g., ls -l). > > - Do not send automated out-of-office or vacation messages. > > - Do not send test messages to determine whether your mail client is > > working. > > - Do not send subscription or unsubscription requests to the list > > address itself; use the respective -request address instead. > > - Never send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead. > > - Avoid sending large attachments. > > While I agree that these are useful suggestions (and that therefore they > probably should be retained), these sound more like technical guidelines; I > don't think a code of _conduct_ should contain technical explanations on how > to configure your mail client. > > So I would suggest that for these things, we create something else (not a > code > of conduct) that is maintained by you, our listmasters. The (proposed) code > of > conduct could obviously refer to it from the "further reading" section, if > that seems appropriate. > > Does that make sense?
IMO yes. The code of conduct could link to a "Best practices on Debian mailing lists" document that the listmasters would maintain. > > - When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon copy > > (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be copied. > > Well, heh. > > On that one, I think the current code of conduct is a mistake, because most > mail clients make it very hard to do that. +1, I'm also in favor of dropping that requirement. Contributing to Debian lists imply some willingness to interact with people and you should not be much bothered by a CC. If you are, then you can most likely filter out duplicates with procmail. I appreciate getting a CC because I see replies to my mails earlier that way. The downside is that people who can't avoid replying within 5 minutes to every mails they get might quickly generate a noisy thread of 10 mails in a few hours without leaving the time to others to participate in the thread and have a healthier thread. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140227111705.gc23...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com
