Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes

2017-03-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Martín Ferrari wrote: > If somebody repeatedly is: > > * performing a substandard job that affects you directly or indirectly, > * ignoring team practices, or flat-out moving packages out of the team > to avoid team policies, > * performing uncoordinated uploads that break rev

Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes

2017-03-27 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 06/02/17 11:18, Ian Jackson wrote: > I hope we do much better than FreeBSD in our response to harassment. I have been meaning to write about this for a long time, then I was going to join this discussion and postponed it. But now thinking about the DPL candidates' platforms, I came back to thi

Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Feb 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > This distributed approach has strengths (which Don points out) but it > also has weaknesses. Principally, it means that though we advertise a > single point of contact, that point of contact is mostly a go-between > and support function for forum-specific t

Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes"): > On Mon, 06 Feb 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Paul Wise writes ("Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes"): > > > https://wiki.debian.org/AntiHarassment > > > > I'm aware

Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes

2017-02-06 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 02/06/2017 08:13 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Paul Wise writes ("Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes"): >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: >>>> In Debian there is no single team responsible for responding to >>> harassment problem

Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes

2017-02-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Feb 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > Paul Wise writes ("Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes"): > > https://wiki.debian.org/AntiHarassment > > I'm aware of this team. > > But they do not have any authority to take steps against harassers. Th

Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes

2017-02-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes"): > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > In Debian there is no single team responsible for responding to > > harassment problems > > There is a team for that: > > https:/

Re: Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > In Debian there is no single team responsible for responding to harassment > problems There is a team for that: https://wiki.debian.org/AntiHarassment -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Learning from FreeBSD's mistakes

2017-02-06 Thread Ian Jackson
I was recently pointed to this article about some of the problems facing the FreeBSD community: https://lwn.net/Articles/712308/ I found it interesting. There are very significant parallels between FreeBSD and Debian. We are both very old projects. We are both large. Both Debian and FreeBS