Re: Conflict escalation and discipline
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 2. You are suggesting mediation.
Yes. It has been my experience that many of the occasional flareups in
Debian have at their root a failure of communication between one or more
parties which has been escalated instead of mediated.
> Mediation is certainly *one* part of what is needed, but also
> *conciliation* and *arbitration*.
I don't expect the adversarial process to resolve our occasional
breakdowns in communication. At most it will produce winners and losers.
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