[Arm-netbook] policy for wiki and mailing list

[lkcl luke]

apologies folks but i'm getting fed up of having to repeat myself with
statements that are being ignored, which are in the best interests of
the project. so i am going to simply lay down the law, in order to get
the project on an optimal footing, on the basis that there is a lot
more going on than just 150 or so subscribers to the arm-netbooks
mailing list: it's a public project with long-term goals.

so the rules that i am forced to reluctantly set are as follows:

1) you put information that is useful to other people - no matter how
patchy, scant, incorrect, incomplete, in the wrong place, and no
matter how much you are "afraid it might be criticised" - on the wiki.
 nobody's going to criticise you - personally - for doing so.  they
might even improve the information.

2) you make an announcement on the list referring people to the page.

3) i will give each individual two and only two publicly-announced
opportunities to conform to 1) and 2).

4) on the 3rd violation of rules 1) and 2) i will simply unsubscribe
them from the list.

the reason is very very simple: if the information is lost because
it's passing by on the mailing list at such a rapid rate that nobody
can remember it, then you are doing *yourself* a dis-service by
completely wasting your *own* time even mentioning it [on the list].
thus, i will actually be doing you a favour by giving you the
opportunity to do something more productive with your time.

i trust that people will now begin to listen and that i will not be
forced to ever mention this again - it's embarrassing; i don't like
having to lay down the law and i'd very much like this to be a
positive environment where people can contribute to something
exciting.

l.

p.s. as this is "static information", i have to follow my own rule,
and have created a wiki page
http://rhombus-tech.net/mailing_list_policy/ because i can't think of
a better name for the page, although it's a stupid policy and a stupid
name.  if anyone else can think of a better name, or more appropriate
rules, please feel free to discuss.