[Arm-netbook] policy for wiki and mailing list

[João Pinto]

2012/5/19 lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
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Hello,
can someone point me «in private» to a ML with people with the
same technical goals from this one but where a Free «as in speech»
participation is allowed ?

Thanks

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João Pinto
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