Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-20 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat Dec 20 14:52, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:31:34PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: I assume any final proposal would explicitly amend the SC/constitution to state this. In fact, I'm tempted to say that _all_ of these should include SC/Constitution amendments to make

Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, It is generally perceived that there are currently a couple of problems with the way discussions happen on our mailing lists: * Some people are put off from participating in the discussions on important topics because they are not willing to expose themselves to offensive behaviour and

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-20 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:08:57PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The social contract is supposedly a contract. The Social Contract is not a contract (even though it is called that - but I believe the name is an intentional reference to a famous concept in political philosophy). A

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: It is generally perceived that there are currently a couple of problems with the way discussions happen on our mailing lists: I'm not sure yet if I like the idea, but for sure it is an intriguing one, thanks for pushing it through!

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Jurij Smakov wrote: and so on. The way I would like to see this idea developing is that it starts as an unofficial project, with very simple rules (like, you can vote once for each message ID), which simply collects the data and makes it publicly available in

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:35:14 +, Jurij Smakov wrote: I believe that at this point Nick Rusnov, John Goerzen and myself have expressed interest in working on the first stage of the project. If you have any ideas or comments - please share, we would also welcome your contribution if you

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ re-ordering the quoted text, anticipating your reply to my post ] On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:35:43PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The goal is not (necessarily to) filter the messages that we want to see or not, the goal is to give feedback to contributors so that they know if their messages

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [ re-ordering the quoted text, anticipating your reply to my post ] On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:35:43PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The goal is not (necessarily to) filter the messages that we want to see or not, the goal is to give feedback

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-20 Thread Felipe Sateler
Manoj Srivastava wrote: I like the idea of clarifying what the principles of the project actually are, since, as aj said, all the decisions about lenny would fall out from the position the project take about the foundation documents. While I have always thought that foundation implied  the

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
Raphael Hertzog (2008-12-20 17:41 +0100) wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: seemed to be more oriented to scoring single posts, while here you are kind of inheriting a score on the poster from his posts. They are two quite different approaches. They are different but if

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 07:12:15PM +0200, Teemu Likonen a écrit : Maybe even add an additional header to mailing-list posts, like X-Debian-Author-Karma: +234. OK, maybe not. It's not terribly reliable on public mailing lists because users can change their From addresses as they want. But at

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 05:02:23PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:35:14 +, Jurij Smakov wrote: I believe that at this point Nick Rusnov, John Goerzen and myself have expressed interest in working on the first stage of the project. If you have any ideas or

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: It is generally perceived that there are currently a couple of problems with the way discussions happen on our mailing lists: I'm not sure yet if I like the idea, but for sure it is an

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:23:27AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: If this vote is 1:1 then there's no point in the 3:1 requirement since you can just ignore them with a 1:1 vote. When we (using the term loosely, since it doesn't include me) voted in the constitution, surely the 3:1 requirement

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread MJ Ray
Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org wrote: [...] So, what can we do about? During a little brainstorming session on IRC last night a following idea has emerged: let's have a way to express our opinion about the mailing list posts. [...] So, people who remain on the debian mailing lists have a poor

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 20 December 2008 21:33:27 MJ Ray wrote: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org wrote: [...] So, what can we do about? During a little brainstorming session on IRC last night a following idea has emerged: let's have a way to express our opinion about the mailing list posts. [...] So,

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org wrote: [...] So, what can we do about? During a little brainstorming session on IRC last night a following idea has emerged: let's have a way to express our opinion about the mailing list posts. [...] So, people who remain on the debian mailing lists

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: * MJ Ray: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org wrote: [...] So, what can we do about? During a little brainstorming session on IRC last night a following idea has emerged: let's have a way to express our opinion about the mailing list posts. [...] So,

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Ben Finney
George Danchev danc...@spnet.net writes: On Saturday 20 December 2008 21:33:27 MJ Ray wrote: So, people who remain on the debian mailing lists have a poor understanding of what should appear a good mailing list, What makes you think that vocal minority is larger than silent majority in

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:38:56AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: George Danchev danc...@spnet.net writes: On Saturday 20 December 2008 21:33:27 MJ Ray wrote: So, people who remain on the debian mailing lists have a poor understanding of what should appear a good mailing list, What makes

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: * Vocal minority dominates silent majority by contributing a disproportionate amount of list traffic, [...] Note that voting can have a similar drawback -- in that if you've got enough like-minded people voting for a particular

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:49:44 Anthony Towns wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: * Vocal minority dominates silent majority by contributing a disproportionate amount of list traffic, [...] Note that voting can have a similar drawback -- in that if