On 9/5/21 04:38, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote:
Either the CoC was already a formal document and changes were made by a
small number of staff with limited oversight from the governing body -
in this case we need to revert to the last formal version and all
changes need formally agreed on. Or it was not an official document and
we need to discuss formally adopting it.
So I see this issue can be addressed by the current governing body (the
Developers, preferably with input from all staff) in at least two ways:
1) There is a discussion and agreement around the formal adoption of the
CoC.
or
2) There is an agreement that the CoC was already official, AND a
discussion and agreement around the changes that were made since import
into the service agreement repo.
Effectively these are the same discussion.
I think at this point it isn't really leading anywhere to try to argue
who is exactly right about the status quo. What does matter more is how
we want to proceed to get the changes official -- this is where i agree
that it kind of is the very same discussion/procedure this should go
through to either get the changes or the overall thing in place.
Using a clear procedure for the current and future changes does not only
make sense because this is a distro wide formal document, but also as
this is implicitly part of the service agreement and changes will hence
need to be propagated to all users actively.
We've talked about this in a small working group for a while and came to
two action points partially related but independent from each other:
1) Use the RFC process to adapt the CoC document in its current form:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/6
This RFC formalizes the current CoC changes as well as defines how to
proceed with changes in terms of transparency (visibility across the
staff) as well as implications for the terms of service.
2) Adaption of the Arch Mediation Program
This program has been discussed for a while now. The time has come to
take it forward and propose a concrete RFC that can be reviewed and
adapted including a procedure to nominate and vote on mediators.
This is related to the CoC, but can live independently. In case former
got adapted, this would lead to a small change in the CoC escalation
paragraphs including the mediators as an official layer.
Thanks for bringing up this discussion and making those changes rock solid.
cheers,
Levente
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