Matt McCutchen said the following on 05/07/2010 01:41 PM Pacific Time: > On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 20:05 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: >> (if you go to the policy to check this, you may be surprised to notice >> it's suddenly sprouted the following section: >> >> "In addition to non-excellent individual behavior, there can be >> occasions where a mailing list thread gets "out of hand", and is no >> longer productive. [...] > > This would appear to be the action from the recent board meeting: > > https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2010-05-06/fedora_board.2010-05-06-16.00.log.html > >> This seems to have been added 'for review' yesterday, which to me is a >> rather odd approach for a policy which is already in practical use, >> however much the top of the page claims it to be a 'draft'. Proposed >> changes for review should happen elsewhere, not in the 'production copy' >> of the policy. > > FWIW, I agree. > >> What worries me is that it was always my understanding, and I think the >> understanding of others, that the hall monitoring policy does not grant >> hall monitors the power to shut down threads they judge to be >> repetitive. My understanding is it should only grant them the power to >> shut down threads which violate the 'be excellent to each other' motto - >> i.e., it's about the civility of the discussion, not the subject matter. >> >> Whether shutting down repetitive threads is a good idea and they >> _should_ have that power is a separate question; even if you think they >> should, it's surely not appropriate for them to exercise that power >> before it's actually been duly granted. > > The board meeting log suggests that they intended the policy to have the > broader goal of keeping the discussion "constructive". I'm not sure to > what degree the policy can be considered something to follow by letter, > independently of its intent. > > (BTW, John Poelstra made two more revisions to the policy 20 minutes > ago.) > Correct. He was following up on an action item he took from the meeting which was to draft up some clear objectives for having the policy in the first place :) John -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
