[Python-ideas] applying the PSF Code of Conduct to this mailing list

[Nick Coghlan]

On 6 June 2013 10:20, Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 6/5/2013 6:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> On 05/06/13 09:31, David Mertz wrote:
>>
>>> My understanding is that Brett and Titus are the list maintainers.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks David, but I misworded the question. Rather than asking *who*, I
>> should have asked why Brett and Titus *alone* are making this decision.
>>
>> Please someone correct me if I am misinformed, but I don't believe that
>> this is a private mailing list "owned" by Brett and Titus, emphasis on
>> the "private" part. As maintainers, they maintain the list on behalf of
>> the community, they are not owners who get to unilaterally set policy
>> for it.
>>
>> But even if I am wrong, and Brett and Titus are owners in the sense that
>> they, and they alone, get to decide what happens with this list, it is
>> hardly open, respectful or considerate to impose this sort of sort of
>> policy change on the list without giving members the opportunity to
>> express their thoughts on the matter first.
>>
>
> I believe the PSF CoC was both ratified by a vote of members and intended
> to apply to all PSF activities, including PSF mailing lists based on
> PSF-paid servers.


Not quite - we voted to publish a template CoC that the community
(including list administrators) may choose to adopt, and *separately* voted
to adopt a derivative of that template for the PSF itself. Whether any
given list (or other group within the community) adopts the CoC is up to
the organisers of that group.

I understand Brett as saying that he and Titus intend to actively enforce
> it for this list.


Given the list generally follows that CoC *without* active enforcement,
nothing is likely to have to change in that regard. The only difference is
that the expected standards of behaviours are documented rather than
needing to be picked up through observation.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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