#debian-tech
From my irclogs of last month:
<aj> vorlon: sounds like you should write up a OFTC #dd code of conduct :)
In the tradition of all good free software hackers, Steve naturally managed to palm that back off onto me. In the end, we’ve decided to put together a new channel for Debian development discussion, called #debian-tech on OFTC. It’ll probably be quite a bit different from #debian-devel on either OFTC or FreeNode; hopefully that’ll turn out to be in a good way. We’ve got (I think) a pretty good variety of ops, who have (I think) some pretty good ideas on encouraging good productive activities on Debian. We’ll see what happens!
There’s a wiki page about it, including the charter/conduct guidelines up at http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-tech. Please do read the charter before joining.
UPDATE 2005/09/23:
From the #debian-tech charter:
Motivation
It’s often difficult to have a civilised discussion about improving Debian, since invariably someone will be annoyed by any change, and will either deliberately or unintentionally seek to shut down discussion by attacking the participants, or acting in a way that is seen as an attack by the participants. […]
First commment on #debian-tech, from Wouter, via Planet Debian:
Playing police will not work
So there’s now a Debian Tech channel. Apparently, some people thought there was need for a channel where we’re all nice and friendly rather than start attacking eachother; and if you’re not like that, you might get kicked out of there.
This isn’t the first proposal from aj that involves forcefully being nice to eachother and policing those who’re not doing so, but I don’t think it’s going to work. […]
The question you should ask before implementing police states is “is this police going to add value to whatever we do,” not “is this police going to make us happier?”