Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > > What do the rest of you think? > > Given how arbitrarly other bans have been proposed, I think that the outcome > should stay private unless the banned person wishes so. This

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > >So I don't think bans need to be posted anywhere prominent like >debian-devel-announce, but I do think basic facts like who is banned, for >how long, and the rationale (with links to specific mailing list posts as >reference) should

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Joey Hess wrote: > Bart Martens wrote: > > I suggest we keep things civil, with respect for the persons involved. It's > > really not up to Debian to harm someone's reputation, and that could reflect > > bad on Debian's reputation. > > Approaches I could support : > > - pos

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > What do the rest of you think? Given how arbitrarly other bans have been proposed, I think that the outcome should stay private unless the banned person wishes so. This will also reduce the pressure on the listmasters, by red

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Luca Filipozzi
Bart wrote: > > > The harm that could come to Debian's reputation is that Debian could be > > > perceived as an organization that harms people's reputation by judging > > > them in > > > public about their behavior on the mailing lists. Steve replied: > > Ok, thanks for explaining. This isn't so

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 04:05:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:08:42PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > > > > > > What do the rest of you think? > > > > > I suggest we keep things civil, with respect for the persons involved. > > > > It's really not up to Debian to harm

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:08:42PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > > > > What do the rest of you think? > > > I suggest we keep things civil, with respect for the persons involved. > > > It's really not up to Debian to harm someone's reputation, and that could > > > reflect bad on Debian's reputati

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:58:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Bart, > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 07:33:34PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made > > > public.

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Bart Martens wrote: > I suggest we keep things civil, with respect for the persons involved. It's > really not up to Debian to harm someone's reputation, and that could reflect > bad on Debian's reputation. > > Approaches I could support : > - post the bans with reasons on debian-private > - or m

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread davidson
expanding on this point of the OP, On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: - It provides a reference point for newcomers to the Debian community to judge their actions by, to understand what kinds of things will get them banned from participation (although I expect

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 20:24 +, Bart Martens wrote: > Cover up ? I did suggest approaches with full transparency among DDs. I don't think that's the meaning of “public” Steve (And Lars) initially thought about… Regards, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:20:27PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 19:33 +, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made > > > public. > > > Alexander expre

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 10:46 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > > Was discussing with one of the listmasters (Alexander Wirt) on IRC today > about mailing list bans, because it turns out that someone I was just about > to ask the listmasters to ban from debian-devel had just been blocked in

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 19:33 +, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made public. > > Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful to a > > person's rep

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Bart, On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 07:33:34PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made public. > > Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful to a

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Bart Martens writes: > Approaches I could support : > - post the bans with reasons on debian-private +1. I think this provides most of the benefits that Steve names (albeit in a reduced form) and allows oversight without getting into a public fight with that person. (Or getting into weird issu

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made public. > Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful to a > person's reputation, since employers will google your name and see that > y

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 08:56:59PM +0200, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: > Am 26.10.2013 um 19:46 schrieb Steve Langasek : > > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made public. > > Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful to a > > person's reputat

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Jose Luis Rivas
On 10/26/2013 02:26 PM, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: > Am 26.10.2013 um 19:46 schrieb Steve Langasek : > >> This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made public. >> Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful to a >> person's reputation, since employer

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Am 26.10.2013 um 19:46 schrieb Steve Langasek : > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made public. > Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful to a > person's reputation, since employers will google your name and see that > you've been bann

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > > Was discussing with one of the listmasters (Alexander Wirt) on IRC today > about mailing list bans, because it turns out that someone I was just about > to ask the listmasters to ban from debian-devel had just been blo

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made public. > Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful to a > person's reputation, since employers will google your name and see that > y

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek (2013-10-26): > Was discussing with one of the listmasters (Alexander Wirt) on IRC today > about mailing list bans, because it turns out that someone I was just about > to ask the listmasters to ban from debian-devel had just been blocked in > response to a request from s

Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, Was discussing with one of the listmasters (Alexander Wirt) on IRC today about mailing list bans, because it turns out that someone I was just about to ask the listmasters to ban from debian-devel had just been blocked in response to a request from someone else. This led to a philosophi