Re: Conflict escalation and discipline
Well, this conversation that is very important and relevant for me,
reaches me in a bad moment. So expuse my slow replies, please.
On 18/04/18 17:17, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Conflict escalation and discipline"):
>> "Debian emotional support group", maybe.
>
> I find this suggestion very surprising, possibly even insulting. At
> the very least I need to be much clearer.
I actually think that both your proposal, and the current a-h, serve a
role that can be described as emotional support, and there is nothing
insulting about that.
Emotional support is essential for a healthy community, sometimes just
having somebody to listen to your rant can help a lot towards solving
problems.
I am not saying that we are currently able to do this (no personpower!),
but I find it an important part of such an entity. For years I have been
parroting about the need to take care of Debian's most important assent:
its people. And I believe this is one very important way of doing so.
>> But maybe wait with the naming until there's a clear description of
>> what the group is reponsible for.
> This group would:
Except for a couple of things -and to the best of my knowledge- the
anti-harrassment team has been doing what you describe here, I will
comment below on the exceptions.
> by the disputes team to the gatekeeper team; but the gatekeeper
> team would not be expected to make its own enquiries and would
> normally be expected to follow the recommendation.
Currently, the gatekeeper has the final say. I think that for DAM I
agree with Ganneff in that it makes sense it stays like this. Maybe you
could give more powers for less drastic actions, such as temporary bans
on certain media, etc.
> * Write and publish guidelines for how to behave, how to complain,
> and write down its own processes.
We have a Code of conduct, which goes a long way towards this.
> * The new group would have a foundational document which would
> explicitly give it authority to do all of the above.
This would be a delegation, I understand.
--
Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
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