Thanks, Jan. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > 3. if you disagree with employing a “Yes, and…”-style in the CouchDB > community, make a counter proposal that you think gets us to a better > culture. >
TL;DR = We are doing that; but what is "better"? To me, it means fun and enjoyable. ## Long version I think everybody is indeed making proposals for better culture. However, it sounds to me like we never really defined "better" (at least in this thread). Different (successful) communities can make different conclusions about that. The code of conduct is a rough guide of "good" culture. It sets the minimum standard, but not the maximum Apache CouchDB is not a corporate, professional product; it is an open source, volunteer project. It should *not* meet professional standards, but it should rather meet fun standards. In other words, if it feels like a job, a slog, to work on CouchDB, then that's just no fun. At its best, CouchDB is fun and relaxed. I mean: let's just step back and look at CouchDB for a moment. Like, what are we even talking about? We have embedded JavaScript inside of Erlang, and the whole thing is a web server. That is on its face just completely bonkers. That's great! It's beautiful! But it's bonkers, no question. I would enjoy a community that is similarly light-hearted and leisurely. When I read a post on the list, I pretend somebody wrote it in their spare time, and my own objective when engaging them is to try to make them feel like it was *leisure* time well-spent.
