> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul M. Jones [mailto:pmjone...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 7:28 PM > To: Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Draft] Adopt Code of Conduct > > > > On Jan 7, 2016, at 23:52, Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > > > Do you think we can find 5 people in the PHP community that we can trust > to make fair decisions (NOT that we would always agree with, but that are > fair) that don't fall too far into "thought policing", in *any* direction? If not, > then the community is already lost beyond all hope and we should all just > give up now. I do not believe that to be the case, at all. > > Too long spent in a position of power, and even the most fair can become > unfair. > > As I have suggested before: *if* there is to be a response team, let it be > randomly selected on per-reported-incident basis from the pool of voters. > Then there is no possibility of a charge of continuing bias, and it distributes > power among the pool, instead of concentrating it into a few members. > > Proponents of the response team: thoughts?
I think that depends on the nature of the response team. If it's a mediation team, with the sole purpose to mediate - but otherwise cannot impose a solution - it's actually better to have a 'professional' one, rather than a random one. I'd still have them voted on and changed every so often (2 years that Larry proposed sounds reasonable), but given the almost nonexistent risk of abuse, it's not much of a concern. If it's a judicial body of any sort - then it's a lot more complicated. I'm not sold on a randomly chosen team - but I think it is superior to a voted team. FWIW, it's quite different from a jury - as there's no judge to guide things through, and there is no law to refer to. Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
