I would hate to see us resort to written, legalistic rules (which encourage gaming and letter-of-law over spirit-of-law) when a strong culture should suffice, particularly at our size. What it feels like such a thing advertises is 'we're so weak we need rules where common sense and politeness should suffice', not 'we care.'
Additionally, this feels like a solution looking for a problem- have we ever had significant problems stopping aggressive or rude behavior? We haven't had any of it on any of the primary mailing lists since crazy orb-boy that I can remember, and that was dealt with fairly promptly. Luis On 5/30/06, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like GNOME to have a code of conduct to: 1. Make it easier to stop aggressive or rude behaviour. This discourages new contributors, though I think we are pretty good compared to some less user-centric F/OSS communities. 2. Advertise to the world that we are already a pleasant welcoming community. I think this is a big part of Ubuntu's success at getting new contributors. But I'd like our code of conduct to be a little shorter and I don't think we need a whole organisation to police it. At the least, it should just be how we expect people to behave on mailing lists and IRC and it could be up to the administrator of that list or channel to decide whether somone's conduct is unacceptable. But maybe some people would be reassured by the existence of some group that they could go to in extreme circumstances. Here's a simple start: http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct What do you think? What else would you like to see there? Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
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