Philip Hands writes ("Re: Formal declaration of weak package ownership in source packages (was: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers)"): > Until now I've tended to be irritated by the way courts do that, but > suddenly I have more of an understanding of why they do ;-) > > Having someone that is familiar with court processes on the TC might > help. I don't know if any of the current batch have a legal background.
While I'm a successful litigant, but I have no formal training. But you can see a lot from reading judgements. > I wonder how long it would be before people start acting as advocates to > guide others though our increasingly arcane rules -- that might actually > work quite well though. Perhaps we'd have a better process if someone > not involved in the dispute acted as champion for each party, so that > even timid folk could be confident that the person they were dealing > with was on their side. That might well help. > > It would also help if third parties kept their rants to a minimum. > > I'm not sure what sanction we could enforce for contempt of TC ;-) The TC ought to be able to block someone from posting to its mailing list (and to bugs in the TC's purview). Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.