On Monday 08 of March 2010, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Tried to get rid of some poisonous people on the mailinglists
And most likely failed, like all the previous attempts :(. How are actually currently the mailing lists handled? Is there something more than just the netiquette wiki page and the (lack of, often) goodwill of all participants to follow it? I'm getting tired watching the dump the opensuse@ list is, it's not uncommon for people to call each other names or do other kinds of things that are clearly against the rules and make the lists a pain for people who would actually like to use them for something useful (and I've seen a number of complaints about that). Apparently just reason and goodwill do not work with some people and there I really think some of these should be warned and then kicked out if they are too stupid to act well. I'm not sure how to go exactly about this, but KDE has a community team (or whatever the name is exactly) that tries to keep an eye on issues like this, can be pointed to problems and they first try to solve it and if nothing works they eventually ban the problematic person. Maybe we could try something similar? I don't know who to actually grant the power and responsibility, but maybe we could start by first just announcing a contact where to report problems and I'd hope eventually some people would turn out to be good candidates to do the actual work. IIRC one of the topics we discussed in September was improving the lists and this is different from the others that it is long-term but relatively low-effort. In the end it could be quickly more efficiently spent time than just random unorganized attempts. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help@opensuse.org