Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
We might need some sort of enforcement for that particular purpose.
While I think that "behavior" proctors are inappropriate, I think that
people with ability to say "move this thread to gentoo-politics or else.."
for non-technical threads, as well as "stop failing to use logic in your
technical discussion or else..." with power to temporarily ban people
for non-compliance could be a useful thing.
IMHO, any enforcement needs to come from the developer community themselves. We
have to be careful when designating small groups of people with power, because
the dark side of power is that can can be misused. The model of developers
collectively enforcing works well already: the Portage Tree. While we've had
small mishaps here and there, largely, the honesty system used on the tree has
worked quite well. I think that can easily extend to keeping -dev technical in
nature only. After all, it already works for the wayward users who posts a
-user question to -dev. Just a simple, courteous note that such a question is
better asked on -user, and off they go. Nothing precludes the same response for
a fellow developer posting a non-technical mail into -dev.
But anyways, we've got unanimous support so far, so next up: What to call it.
My two choices are gentoo-politics or gentoo-project. After looking at
debian-project a bit, I think there's no harm in recycling the same moniker[1]
for our use as well. Amusingly enough, there's even a thread on their ML today
about discussion of of-topic topics. The rest of the content there seems to be
right in line with what's been on here too as of late.
So, what should we call it? Vote on this! I think the current popular names
are the following (in no particular order, just what I've already seen suggested):
gentoo-politics
gentoo-circuits
gentoo-soap
gentoo-project
gentoo-gossip
[1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/
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