[OSM-talk] BDFL & Moderation

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 00:05:25 BST 2010


On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, steve brown <steve at evolvedlight.co.uk> wrote:
> Hey
>
> As BFDL, do you still want a Code of Conduct, or does your wiki page
> suffice? I'm happy to abandon it and get back to coding if it's not
> needed in the new system of "dictatorship" (which I support).
>
> I've updated it to merge in various changes suggested by people, and
> especially lots of stuff stolen from the great US version.

The code of conduct is great, and I'd love to see you work on it
further. I'd like see the community looking after itself, with a
sensible escalation path.

self control > common sense > advice from peers > guidelines >
policies > 'official' warnings > interventions > backstop

What we've come to recently is the final five steps have been pretty
much non-existent, and things have broken down when the advice from
peers isn't being taken on board. Hopefully very few people need to
even get as far as requiring written guidelines on etiquette, but I
guess it turns out we need them. Your code of conduct would play an
important part of the guidelines / policies level.

Steve has basically made himself backstop. All the things that come in
front are more important to work on and get right, but at least now
the buck has somewhere to (eventually) stop. I'd hope that nothing
ever gets escalated that far though.

Cheers,
Andy



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