<quote who="Quim Gil"> > Instead of writing a new code why don't we just encourage people to be > good persons, participants, contributors...?
That's precisely what it's for. It's not a list of *rules*, it's a statement of intent, of expectations. Boiled down to the very basics, the Ubuntu Coc just says - "be excellent to each other". There are lots of good examples of *how* to be excellent to each other in it, though. > > but it is an extremely useful statement nonetheless. > > Applied to GNOME, extremely useful what for? As a statement of what we want our community to be. > At the very end a CoC is a tool of control ?! > Instead, you could be constructive and provide examples of CoC created for > reasons different than the ones I'm suggesting. I felt that my contribution of information and experience regarding the CoC as used in Ubuntu might be perceived as 'constructive', particularly given that the Ubuntu CoC was absolutely *NOT* created as "a tool of control", or in the context of "desperate times". Your charges, my examples. I have not suggested that GNOME should have a CoC because Ubuntu has one. I've related my experiences of the unique benefits of Ubuntu's CoC, agreed with Murray's suggestion that we should look into something similar, and disagreed with various charges that a CoC is for dysfunctional communities. I didn't expect to be attacked for it. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "First-born children are less creative but more stable, while last-born are more promiscuous, says US research." - BBC News, 2005 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list