[Development] QUIP 12: Code of Conduct

Robert Loehning Robert.Loehning at qt.io
Mon Oct 29 16:39:06 CET 2018


Am 26.10.2018 um 18:11 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> On Friday, 26 October 2018 01:12:35 PDT Andy Nichols wrote:
>> The details of this are tricky though because it depends a lot on trust
>> (similarly the security list).  Much of the concern with this proposal has
>> to do with the potential for abuse, and rightly so.  I'm not super happy
>> with the idea of a Conduct Cabal who has to the power to banish people from
>> the community either.
> 
> One idea I've seen recently is to populate the panel members at random, on a
> need basis, much like jury duty. I don't know of project adopting this
> solution and whether they've been successful at it. Would be nice to research.
> 

I'm not aware of software projects using such, but the concept of giving 
power to random people seems to have been used for more than 2000 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Cheers,
Robert


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