Part of how best to handle this is to remind people, when they're
complaining, to keep two things in mind:
a) only state the behavior you observed/read/witnessed, and be specific,
rather than using generalizations such as "always", or "never."
b) Keep to "I" statements. As silly as the template may be:
I ______ when you _____, because _______. (and variants thereof).
As in:
"I felt like our podling was ignored by one of our mentors, because he
only voted for one of the seven releases that we did."
-- or --
"I got frustrated whenever I had to send an email to "general", because
it usually generated a long email thread, and only one or two responses
directly addressed my problem."
Doing the above will do much to reduce possible contention.
Perhaps add the above to the "what to expect" introduction to the incubator?
Eric.
On 6/21/13 5:52 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote:
As in any such survey, author identity should be optional. Sometimes it
can be deduced, but not always, and if someone would rather not mention
their name, we should give them that opportunity.
"Sometimes" preserving anonymity is not good enough. It would be
irresponsible of us to solicit candid feedback when identity will be revealed
"sometimes".
If respondents state that they would prefer to remain anonymous, at the very
least we must limit publication of any natural language responses to
private@incubator -- which would be unfortunate because it shunts discussion
that ought to take place in public onto a private list. Furthermore, we
should tell them outright that they are fooling themselves if they think no
IPMC members will be able to guess who they are.
I'm not even sure we can realistically preserve anonymity for "scale of 1 to
10", multiple choice, true/false and so on given the very limited pool of
potential respondents. We're going to have to think really hard about what we
ask and what we publish -- and if we try hard to scrub and fail, I'm going to
feel really bad.
Nevertheless, if an "anonymous" option that can only be discussed privately is
the price of consensus, I'm still on board. It's better than nothing.
Marvin Humphrey
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