Hi Lucas, On Wed 25 Nov 2009 13:48, Lucas Rocha <luc...@gnome.org> writes:
> In the context of GNOME Foundation, it's really hard to argue about > how we expect our members to behave if there is no official guidelines > that members are supposed to comply with. The GNOME Code of Conduct[1] > has been serving very well It's a very nice document, a lovely "credo". > we'd like to make it an official document Sounds like a good idea, to give it more moral authority. > that new Foundation > members are expected to explicitly agree[2] with before being > accepted. This way we'll have a common ground for dealing with certain > conflict situations and avoid trying to base our discussions on > guidelines that certain members haven't explicitly agreed on. I realize you haven't really touched on "punishment", but since it's come up in other parts of this thread: The board already has the power to expell or suspend a member who fails to "observe the rules of conduct promulgated from time to time by the Board" (Bylaws VI 7(c)). But that's a bit extreme of course. It's good that we are concerned about maintaining our high level of discourse, but I am surprised at the clamoring by some for "teeth" behind the code of conduct. There are teeth enough already. And in the case of any particular venue, there is typically a responsible party -- p.g.o. with its maintainers (as you know :), mailing lists with their respective maintainers, etc. Maintainers should communicate their expectations to their contributors and users. People who don't like that can find another project/venue. It's only IRC and DDL that are really the outliers, it seems, and there there is enough social pressure, combined with ignore/kill lists, that I don't really see all the fuss. Finally, a quote from the foundation charter: [T]he foundation can have no real powers of enforcement; compliance with foundation decision should be an act of good-faith. If we've lost consensus to the point where we're regularly forcibly ejecting people from the foundation and co-opting their projects, we're sunk anyway. Happy hacking, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list