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

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Thu Jun 6 03:09:16 CEST 2013 
On 06/06/2013 01:26, Mark Janssen wrote:
> On 6/5/13, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> 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.
>
> That is not the community standard on the internet.  The standard is
> that people who create a list are the de facto policy setters, mostly
> because anyone else can create their own list if they don't like the
> policies.
>
> Unless there's a severe problem with the policy, it would be
> considered rude to object to the volunteers who maintain the list (and
> tacit, if not actual, "owners"), since you are free to start your own.
>
>> 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.
>
> If you want this kind of governance here for the 'net, consider
> instead joining the US government where these political questions have
> been being hashed out for about 400 years.
>
"About 400 years"? I didn't know that the US government had been around
for that amount of time! :-)
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