Vapier wrote: [Mon Apr 03 2006, 04:38:48PM CDT]
> dont get me wrong, i hate documenting common sense as much as the next sane 
> guy, but it seems Gentoo has come to the point where this needs to be done

Actually, I disagree that it "needs to be done".  Once upon a time I
helped plasmaroo craft parts of our etiquette guide, but at the time I
assumed that it was a guide to help the clueless, not a rigid code that
we would be putting in place (and under which one could be prosecuted).
I think parts of the Ubuntu code are quite nice, but I still disagree
that we _need_ it.

> many thanks to the Ubuntu guys and to solar for doing the real work here:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/xml/conduct.html

Um, do we have permission from the authors?  Some of the sentences seem
to be word-for-word identical to the source.  Incidentally, why drop the
part about leaving the project in a considerate manner?

> i dont see how anyone can be against this (unless you're a terrorist!), so 
> this is on track to be integrated as-is into the dev handbook Etiquette 
> section

A few points:  The "be collaborative" stanza echoes our social policy,
so it's not clear that it's needed here.  In any event, if we plan to
use this document to extend or otherwise clarify our social policy, then
I tend to think that does deserve some discussion.  As for the bit about
"disruptive behaviors" being "a security and stability threat to
Gentoo", I assume that's Solar's contribution?  It very much sounds like
his mindset that security should be pre-eminent.  It's certainly a valid
point of view, but I don't happen to agree with it.  I don't think that
security should trump all else.  (Incidentally, I still fail to see
exactly how a tree dev whose tree access has been revoked differs from a
non-developer Gentoo user.  Anybody, dev or not, can submit bugs and ask
devs to commit on his or her behalf.)  In any event, I thought we had
devrel to handle suspending devs, unless there was some sort of clear
urgency that required infra to do so?  Wasn't that the outcome of the
recent discussions?

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