Fedora-Council/tickets ticket #517: Proposals for lessons learned from the recent provenpackager revocation incident

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@till filed Fedora-Council/tickets ticket #517. Discuss here and record votes and decisions in the ticket.

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I am not sure what’s the best place to propose these issues so I start with an issue here.

Here are some ideas about what to improve in our processes to avoid issues like the recent incident:

• Provide training to elected members that can revoke privileges against the affected persons will such as crucial conversations - Crucial Conversations Miniseries | Crucial Learning
• Require that any government body provides specific feedback to people whose privileges they would like to revoke using best principles such as SBI (Mastering the SBI Feedback Model: Definition and Examples)
• Require that the person whose privileges are revoked against their will have the opportunity to defend themselves when the government body discusses to revoke their privileges. Also allow someone to assist the person with their defense given that otherwise there is a huge majority in the government body compared to a single person having to defend themselves.
• Consider to have these kind of discussions be done in public given that this is also best practice for regular trials (see https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-and-political-rights#article-14 ) and to some degree the discussions about revoking a persons privileges are comparable to a trial.