[OSM-talk] BDFL & Moderation

[SteveC]

I agree with all Andy said.

Steve

stevecoast.com

On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>