+1 Jason :) Especially: someone wrote it in their spare time, spent the whole night on it, and feels really miserable the day after.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
