Re: Question to all candidates: Code of Conduct and Community Team - how do you feel about them?

2022-03-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry


On 20 March 2022 09:56:53 UTC, Hideki Yamane  wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 19:34:03 +
>"Andrew M.A. Cater"  wrote:
>> We've had the Code of Conduct for about eight years now and the Community 
>> Team
>> for about as long. There are still significant differences about how some
>> people feel about them, despite the Code of Conduct having been adopted by 
>> the 
>> Project as a whole.
>> 
>> How do _you_ feel about the Code of Conduct - and the role of a Community 
>> Team?
>
> Well, we have the CoC, but all we do not read and think about it repeatedly,
> contrast to DFSG and Social Contract because the CoC itself is a kind of
> "common sense", IMHO.
>
> CoC itself is good, however, we've just created it - have the form but not
> the spirit (in Japanese "仏作って魂を入れず"). If we want to use it effectively,
> we should do some training during the onboarding process (and it's better to
> do it for existing members in each several years). We need more communication
> about it with our contributors.
> 
>
> We need a Community Team to deal with some troubles for the project, and
> they do hard work (thank you), but I need more transparency about what they
> are doing (and did). Maybe it would be a sensitive and difficult thing but
> it's a necessary thing. 
>
>
>
>> More widely: where something is adopted by the Project but opposition 
>> remains -
>> how would you deal with differences of opinion and attempt to reconcile
>> different viewpoints to consensus?
>
> That is like a law - our parliament adopts something, but opposition remains 
> ;)
> And we are an all different people and have a unique opinion, sometimes
> conflict with each other. Yes, there is a "gap," so all we apparently should
> recognize it. Currently, it's not (to me, at least).
>
>
> And if someone would do some violation to CoC, just banning is not healing.
> Asking them to go for counseling by professionals with project money is 
> better,
> IMO. We are good at coding, writing, making some systems - but not counselors.
> After dealing with some cognitive trouble, then re-start talking.
>
> Maybe before and during their duties, the community team members would be 
> better
> to get counseling since dealing with such trouble make them sick (or something
> wrong feelings), IMHO.
>
>
> To summarize: 
> - Make the situation clear: what's wrong, and what it should be.
> - Train ourselves: to think about what is CoC and why we need it
> - We don't have to do all the work by only ourselves.
>   Ask the professionals that we are not good at (of course I'll do so :)
>
>
>-- 
>Hideki Yamane 
>

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Re: Announcing new decision making procedures for Debian

2021-04-01 Thread Alastair McKinstry

Inspired! (by what :-) ?)

Have a beautiful day, Enrico.

On 31/03/2021 23:52, Enrico Zini wrote:

Hello Debian Members,

For some time, we have been having systemic issues that make GR
discussions painful. GRs themselves shouldn't be painful, and don't need
to be. Having a chilling effect to using GRs hurts Debian, and as a
project we need a way to poll for consensus on project choices and
directions more often than not.

To overcome the current problems with GR discussions, we introduce a
replacement weighted democratic system. The new procedure is this:

  * A developer proposes an issue with a signed message on
debian-vote@lists.debian.org .

  * Anyone can express their consent or dissent by replying to the
message.

  * When the discussion eventually dies down, the Debian Secretary will
review all messages and pronounce the winner.


This method makes the fair assumption that the energy spent in writing
messages to the discussion is related to the amount of insight a person
has on an issue, and how much they care about it. In particular:

  * The more messages a person writes, the more the person cares, and the
more their opinion will be taken into account: people who only write
every once in a while, clearly don't think the issue is important
enough to deserve their real effort.

  * The more strongly worded replies are, the more the person cares, and
the more their opinion will be taken into account: people who waste
time with long, polite, well reasoned messages, clearly didn't care
enough to get emotional about an issue.

  * The longer a person keeps writing, the more the person cares, and the
more their opinion will be taken into account: people who give up,
clearly didn't care enough to make themselves heard.

To avoid confusion, we'll maintain the same acronym as before. The new
system will be called Debian Grandiose Reflection.

The first GR using this scheme will concern the introduction of this
voting scheme for the future.


Enrico


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