On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:43:22PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > It's sad, yes, but I think it's just the way people work. Debian is a city > now, not a village anymore - lots of people know lots of other people not > very well or not at all. This probably includes people in important > functions, although the various face to face meetings have improved this in > some areas. Right now we're trying to cope with city problems using > village methods - has not worked in the Real World, won't work in an online > community. Hi Adrian, if there is technical committee for arbitrating technical difference, I'd suggest a duty added to the DPL position: social mediator. Someone would email mediation@debian.org which would be a special address forwarded to the DPL(leader@debian.org?) that would be encrypted with a DPL public key as to provide privacy. One party would email the problem and the mediator would send an encrypted email to (a leader of a group or the particular person) asking for a conference on a private irc channel with no logging and such. Each party would represent their side and the DPL would try to workout something. After the meeting everyone would agree to not discuss anything in public and only redress furthur problems by arranging another private irc session. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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