Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,

The tone used on this mailing list recently got a lot worse and totally
out of bounds with the requirement to respect the Ubuntu Code of Conduct
[1] for posts to this list.

While we have a mailing list etiquette [2] the size of this list lets
things run out of control quite often and i observed more and more the
call for mailing list administrator intervention in the past.

The persons currently running the list do not have the resources to
actively monitor every single post for appropriate content or Code of
Conduct violation.

In a discussion i had with one of the administrators we came to the
conclusion that a governance team should be put in place taking the
administrator role for it, consisting of people actively participating
in the list and functioning similar to the IRC council [3] we already
have in place for our IRC channels.

The team should be formed during a community council meeting
(requirements need to be defined here) operating as a sub-instance of
the Ubuntu Community Council [4].

Similar to the IRC Operator guidelines [5] that team should first work
out guidelines for itself how to handle different levels of
inappropriate behavior (and indeed obey to its own rules).

The team should have enough members to peer-control itself so that one
team member can not abuse power.

I would like to see a discussion on-list first for this topic but will
put it up on the agenda for one of the next community council meetings
[6] (given that UDS is near it is likely that one or the other meeting
might have to be skipped by the council members, thus the proposal for
the dates below) 
Looking at the current schedule it appears that the meeting on June 16
at 11:00 UTC is a safe bet for a meeting with council quorum to be held,
that should give the list members here enough time to prepare and
discuss the issues here (since not everyone can attend a meeting at
11:00 UTC easily i would propose to also use the follow-up meeting on
July 7 at 21:00 UTC to make sure everyone who wants to speak up is able
to attend to at least one of the two meetings).

I wish everyone a healthy discussion and hope we come to a proper
conclusion that suits the majority and turns this list into a more
friendly place.

ciao
        oli     

PS: To find out the actual current UTC time, open a terminal and type:
date -u

PPS: If you need help in setting up an IRC client to take part in the
meetings see [7]

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
[2] http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil
[4] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/processes/council
[5] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/OperatorGuidelines
[6] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda
[7] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat

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