-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kumba wrote: > 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/ > > > --Kumba >
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