Decisions for the project are made on the project mailing list, a special mailing list for those people interested enough in the project. This page lists decisions found there for reference.

In case a comment here is absolutely necessary please leave it at the Discussion page.

1   Mailing lists

1.1   Closing of discussion lists

Because of uncontrollable spam attacks the discussion mailing lists are for members only.

Call:04816
Consensus:Yes
Execution:Not reported but soon after decision.
Concerns left:None

1.2   Closing of project list

Because of uncontrollable spam attacks the mailing list [pox] for organization and general contact is for members only.

Call:04870
Consensus:Yes
Execution:05092
Concerns left:None

1.3   Contact form for sending mail to project list unmoderated

After the closing of the project list this is a feature to contact the project list with any mail address.

Call:04879
Consensus:Yes
Execution:05092
Concerns left:None

1.4   Removing project archive from search engines

People didn't like to have the [pox] archive inside Google.

Call:04879
Consensus:Yes
Execution:05092, 05098
Concerns left:None

1.5   Changing subject tag of German discussion list

The subject tag of the German discussion list should be changed from [ox] to [ox-de].

Call:05623
Consensus:Yes
Execution:05637
Concerns left:None

1.6   Moderation of German discussion list

The German list shall be moderated by using a tool for collective moderation (clerk). This is to avoid closing down the list.

Call:05626
Consensus:Postponed until

2006-09-03

Execution:05692
Concerns left:Lots from everybody

1.7   Ban of Dmytri Kleiner from [ox-en]

Dmytri Kleiner has been banned from [ox-en] because he did not respond properly to a couple of warnings about his unwelcome behavior.

Call:None
Consensus:Maintainer decision
Execution:04415
Concerns left:Few

1.8   Ban of Karl Dietz from Oekonux mailing lists

Karl Dietz has been banned from all Oekonux lists because he did not respond properly to lots of warnings about his behavior.

Call:None
Consensus:Maintainer decision
Execution:05965
Concerns left:?

1.9   Ban of Johannes Emminger from [ox-de]

Johannes Emminger has been banned from [ox-de] because he did not respond properly to lots of warnings about his behavior.

Call:06626
Consensus:Yes
Execution:06628
Concerns left:None

2   Wiki

2.1   MediaWiki as trial site

The MediaWiki site that has been set up at this time has been considered a trial site only.

Call:03609
Consensus:Yes
Execution:Somewhat later (by setting up a note about the trial state in the Wiki).
Concerns left:Some. Mainly people were concerned about a second attempt which a shift to another site would mean. There were also concerns left about loosing the edit history by the transfer to a new site.

2.2   Report of sent mail notification

When updating a page MoinMoin normally displays who received mail notification of that change. This was considered annoying. Therefore this feature was disabled.

Call:05160
Consensus:Yes
Execution:05168
Concerns left:None

2.3   Multilingual Wiki

At the time of the decision there were a German and an English Wiki. This was considered and the result was that a multilingual Wiki is more useful for Oekonux.

Call:

05348

Consensus:

Yes

Execution:

Pending

Concerns left:
  • Not tested yet
  • This decision may not have been really thought out well

There is a discussion about that at wiki:De:OekonuxWiki/GartenPlan

2.4   Page names for administrator group

The names MaintainerGroup / MaintainerGruppe for the Wiki page listing people with extended permissions has been considered misleading because the people there are not maintainers in the sense of the word used in the project. They have been renamed to AdminGroup.

Call:05466
Consensus:Yes
Execution:05466
Concerns left:None

2.5   Password for account creation

As a spam protection measure it is now necessary to give an additional password when creating an account. This password is public for the Oekonux community.

Call:05895
Consensus:Nobody commented or objected
Execution:05898
Concerns left:None

3   Integration of the project

3.1   Language for common infrastructure

While discussion a integration of the separated language parts in Oekonux the question came up what the language for organizing all common infrastructure should be. It has been decided that this should be English.

Call:

05349

Consensus:

Yes

Execution:

Permanently

Concerns left:
  • English should be the main but not the only language for this purpose
  • Given a world with different mother tongues this is the best compromise - but still a compromise

4   Conferences

See ../Conferences/4thConference/Decisions for the decisions made for the 4th conference.

5   Web sites

Someone asked to pay 30EUR for a link to his web site. We don't want sponsored links of this kind - at least not for such ridiculous amounts |;-)|.

Call:05768
Consensus:Yes
Execution:Immediately
Concerns left:None

6   Notes

  • The field Call links to the mail calling for consensus or a mail containing a maintainer decision.
  • The field Consensus says whether this decision was found by consensus (Yes) or is a maintainer decision (No). Consensus means, that nobody strongly disagreed with the proposal.
  • The field Concerns left records the concerns left. These should be expressed in the thread following the call for decision.

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