Being recently trapped into a very heated discussion I wished there were some respected Perl leaders who would volunteer to step in and mediate. Do you think such a custom could work?

No, I think it would fail miserably. First of all, just because someone is a "respected perl leader" does not mean that they should have any say in the matter. Especially if it is not their module and/or they are not directly involved in the project.

Or perhaps TPF could offer a grant not to a Perl developer for coding but to a professional moderator for improving the communication in some important Perl projects?

Please, please, no. If two (or more) adults cannot settle an argument between themselves, what makes you think a professional moderator would actually help? To start with, you would be hard pressed to find a professional moderator with enough technical knowledge to actually do the job correctly, and as the other posters pointed out, both parties must agree to use the moderator.

And who gets to determine what is and what isn't an "important Perl project"? What is important to me as a web developer may not be important to someone who is primarily a system administrator or someone who works in bio-tech, etc etc.

Heated discussions with assholes is one of those universal constants of the open source world, I suggest you get used to it and/or learn to avoid getting into those discussions.

Remember, if I release my code open source, I am giving you many hours of my hard work for free, a sparkling personality costs extra.

-stvn

In reply to Re: Moderation of Open Source projects by stvn
in thread Moderation of Open Source projects by zby

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