On 1/8/16 12:31 PM, Paul M. Jones wrote:
On Jan 8, 2016, at 12:16, Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
On 1/8/16 11:28 AM, Paul M. Jones wrote:
On Jan 7, 2016, at 23:52, Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
Do you think we can find 5 people in the PHP community that we can trust to make fair
decisions (NOT that we would always agree with, but that are fair) that don't fall too
far into "thought policing", in *any* direction? If not, then the community is
already lost beyond all hope and we should all just give up now. I do not believe that
to be the case, at all.
Too long spent in a position of power, and even the most fair can become unfair.
As I have suggested before: *if* there is to be a response team, let it be
randomly selected on per-reported-incident basis from the pool of voters. Then
there is no possibility of a charge of continuing bias, and it distributes
power among the pool, instead of concentrating it into a few members.
Proponents of the response team: thoughts?
Randomly selected: Absolutely not. I wouldn't randomly select someone to make
Ultimate Decision(tm) on a technical RFC, either. But if a question about, say,
a parser bug came up there are absolutely certain people that I would trust
with that question more than others, and defer to their analysis/opinion more
readily.
Certain people *you* would trust more than others, but that *others* would not
trust more.
Also, this is a social/political realm, and not a technical realm; would you
not trust, say, a randomly-selected jury to hear and decide on a case? If not,
why not?
As many people, including both you and I, have said, we don't want to
focus on the "jury" aspect. Rather, we want to focus on conflict
resolution and mediation, not on hammer dropping. And conflict
resolution and mediation is not even remotely a universal skill. No, I
would not trust a "select a person at random" as a "defuse a situation"
role, not even a little.
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--Larry Garfield
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