We've had to remove people from the list before, and I suppose at some point it might have to happen again. Nobody likes this option. Sometimes there is no choice.
I agree that on a technical discussion list there's no place for abusive language. We're all trying to do the best we can in a non-ideal world. ron On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:03 AM David Hendricks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > Recently I've noticed an uptick in threads going off-topic. While some > noise should be expected on an open source mailing list, I think it's > become very counterproductive in many recent cases. A good example is the > FSP-S thread going on where we see clear examples of people interjecting > with non-technical diatribes and disrespecting developers, corporate > contributors, and coreboot itself in violation of the existing community > standards (https://coreboot.org/Code_of_Conduct). > > Most of this is perpetrated by a very small handful of individuals who > have not contributed anything to the codebase, so I think the current > problem could be dealt with easily. It might also be worth adding something > about keeping threads on-topic and focused on technology in the Code of > Conduct. > > Another option would be to have a developer-only mailing list, but I think > it's best to try and keep things open to the community at large even if > that means ejecting the most disruptive members. > > Thoughts? > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
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