Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
ver, if everyone understands that the DF can ban people from the > list, it can lend their attempts to defuse the situation some additional > measure of credibility and authority. This is a two-edged sword, since having that capability can also make the DF come across as authoritarian, which

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread John Goerzen
On 08/16/2010 08:30 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: In particular, developing a code of conduct/community guideline that encourages use of a facilitator to resolve conflicts, with a goal to avoid needing to escalate to anything beyond that. One of the issues that came up at DebConf, and is discussed in

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:15:04PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > As discussed at DebConf, I'd like to renew the general idea of having > a group of individuals who are available to help groups in Debian (and > even outside, when they're communicating with Debian groups) > communicate more e

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 17. August 2010, Stephen Frost wrote: > Thanks! Do you have some specific thoughts on what you think it needs > to be formalised..? eg, that the role "debian faciliators" is mentioned in developers reference (or in policy or the community guidelines [0] (which itself need forma

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-16 Thread Stephen Frost
Holger, * Holger Levsen (hol...@layer-acht.org) wrote: > I like the idea and I think that having this role somewhat formalised will > help achieving it goals. Thanks! Do you have some specific thoughts on what you think it needs to be formalised..? Thanks again, Stephe

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-16 Thread Stephen Frost
MJR, * MJ Ray (m...@phonecoop.coop) wrote: > I wrote many years ago that I support this concept for lists in > particular > http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/debian.html#listmoderators > but I think it could be applied to many other situations too. Thanks for the link! That looks very similar t

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-15 Thread MJ Ray
Stephen Frost wrote: > And so, I'd like to open this idea up to discussion, in particular to > those who were not part of the discussion at DebConf. I don't believe > forming of this group requires any particular delegation from the DPL > at this time, but as this concept grows and becomes

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Stephen, I like the idea and I think that having this role somewhat formalised will help achieving it goals. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Debian Facilitators

2010-08-10 Thread Stephen Frost
nt ideas/names/etc have been thrown around, many with connotations that I don't believe get across the right idea, so I've fallen back to a name that I'm familiar with from my work- a facilitator. The definition on Wikipedia matches the general concept and role of DFs (D