On to, 2007-01-25 at 16:27 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Why don't I think it is a good idea? Well, because, unlike > technical issues, social issues are very subjective. Also, social > and cultural norms differ widely from culture to culture; which > culture shall be represented in, and whose norms shall be enforced > by this social/cultural committee?
That's easy: we should enforce (assuming that is not too strong a word) the social and cultural norms that we, as a community, agree on. The comparison to technical policy is not entirely invalid: we make up our technical policy ourselves, too. We can determine social policy by discussion and, if necessary, by voting. I'd rather see consensus, and, more specifically, see the soc-ctte spell out the social norms and if the developer body disagrees with it, and can't convince the soc-ctte via discussion, they can force a change via a GR. -- The road is wide and the sky is tall, before I die I will see it all.--H.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]