> I would like to know how different distributions have organized handling > personal conflicts between contributors.
In Exherbo, we have much more contributors (~120) than core developers (~24). Personal conflicts do arise, of course, but handling depends on the cause and scope of said conflict: - Technical disagreement between contributors turns into a personality clash: We, as core devs, choose the solution we like better. Case closed. - Technical disagreement between core devs: Our project lead/"BDFL" chooses the solutions he wants for Exherbo. Case closed. - Personality clashes in general: They're tolerated up to the point at which one of us core devs thinks something should be done. Said dev then talks to the persons involved. If no agreement can be reached, the issue is escalated to our project lead/"BDFL" and he talks to the parties involved. If that doesn't lead to an agreement the conflict is regarded as basically unresolvable and is tolerated. Interaction between the parties involved is usually reduced to technical stuff. This does, in some cases, lead to competing technical implementations one of which usually obsolete the other. Technical evolution so to speak and this tends to convince the party with the technically inferior solution. This has worked pretty well for us for the last four years. Best regards, Wulf
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