On February 28, 2024 7:08:14 AM UTC, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>Am Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:54:01PM +0000 schrieb Scott Kitterman:
>> It's self-induced. I mean if it's demotivating to have people point out
>> that you didn't follow the policy, then you can solve that all by yourself
>> by following the policy. If I take your argument to its logical conclusion,
>> all of Debian's rules can be demotivating when people ignore them, so we
>> should get rid of them all so your feelings are safe.
>
>I agree that it was my mistake to not follow team policy. I should not
>have done this and I apologized for this. I should have written this
>e-mail first to change a policy that does not fit my experiences in
>other teams as well as what obviously several contributors consider
>inappropriate. To solve this I started this discussion and meanwhile
>created a MR[1].
>
>The demotivating part was the wording to point me to the policy. I
>addressed this with the words "I wonder whether I should propose another
>change to the policy about maintaining a kind and polite language inside
>the team - but that's a different thing." in my initial mail[2].
>
>To make sure this will really clear I added the proposed change in a
>second MR[3] containing the following diff:
This makes more sense to me. It is completely understandable that how things
are communicated affects how people feel about them. This is a difficult thing
to get right. I have experienced similar demotivating conversations in Debian
myself.
Everyone in Debian is already bound by the code of conduct already, so it seems
redundant to add it here again. While I agree with the principle you are
trying to address, I think this change unnecessarily clutters the DPT document
and we should not make it.
Scott K
