Package: lists.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hello,
with the adoption of the code of conduct, more and more people started to respond to persons who do not follow its spirit, to let them know that the message was inappropriate in one way or another. Some do it publicly and other do it privately. This is good. Unfortunately, when such a message is sent publicly on the same mailing list, it oftens degenerates in a small sub-thread. This is bad because it generates useless tension and because its brings down the signal/noise ratio on the given list. At the same time, those discussions are also necessary to have some balance and remember collectively that we do not want to over-regulate our mailing lists either. Thus I would like to have a new mailing list called "debian-moderat...@lists.debian.org" that moderators (i.e. contributors who are telling others that their behaviour was inappropriate, or contributors refuting such claims) would use. The complaint would go the interested person and would be carbon copied to this list. This has multiple benefits: - people acting as moderators get a better feel of what can be done and what can't be done (by following what others are doing they auto-regulate themselves) - listmasters can monitor the list to detect regular offenders and take more informed decisions for (temporary) bans - meta-discussions no longer pollute our work mailing lists To not exclude moderators who are unwilling to send complaints publicly, I believe that the mailing list should be private (but archived with archives accessible to DD only) and only open to Debian developers by default. Possibly non-DD could join but they would need the invitation of a DD. A copy of this mail is sent to debian-project, both to have some public discussion of this idea (in that case, please do not keep the bug in copy), and to sollicit a few "ack" from other DD who are already doing that kind of moderation work (or would like to start doing it in a more organized way). Thank you. FTR, this idea was initially submitted in a debian-private thread discussing the code of conduct. -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
