On Friday, June 22, 2012 08:47:34 am ext Rohan McGovern wrote: > Alexis Menard said: > > Hi, > > > > When I see recent behaviors, wording, comments on various mailing > > lists, blog posts, or IRC against major contributors or regular > > contributor I feel sad about it. I feel sad to hear bashing, complains > > in a way they should not be said, i.e. impolite, arrogant, aggressive. > > While I do understand people have strong opinion about feature A > > against feature B, QML vs C++, whatever against whatever, it is not a > > reason to not behave like educated person. I find it very demotivating > > especially when we all need to act as strong community to make Qt an > > even better framework. > > > > We don't all like each others but that is fine. But we are not forced > > to accept people polluting the environment, the professionalism on the > > project especially when it starts hurting motivation of people > > *actually* contributing to the project. These people are not welcomed. > > > > Should we have a code of conduct just like KDE or Gnome to specify > > what we expect from community members in term of behavior between each > > other? If people don't agree with this code of conduct then they > > should not participate to the project. It's not a law neither a > > removing liberty to people to raise their concerns, it just a way to > > make sure people will do it in a nice manner and if they don't they > > can just leave. > > When I read your mail, I tried to think which recent incidents you were > referring to. I could only think of cases where non-contributors have > been disrespectful of contributors. As far as I can tell, Qt Project > contributors' interaction with each other is not a problem. > > Having a code of conduct may anyway be a good thing, but I > don't think it would have made a difference to the behavior from > non-contributors I think you're referring to in your mail. > No matter what you do, jerks will be jerks....
The fact that a measure does not completely eradicate the problem it's intended to address, does not entail necessarily that that measure is not worth implementing. I hope that's obvious - if it were not true, then the only measures worth taking would be those with 100% success rate. For example a measure might reduce the incidence of a problem, or make its effects less damaging. In my view, just having a policy as Alexis suggests means that as a group, we stand for treating each other in a respectful way. Taking such a stand has value in and of itself. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
