On 30/05/14 22:01, Justin Dolske wrote: > What's the goal of this "agreement"? That is, what problem is it > addressing or even just general purpose?
I think this is key. There are several possible purposes it could have: 1) legal purpose. (But this has been disclaimed as the purpose, and it's not a document which requires a signature.) 2) expectation-setting/social-contract purpose. (But other communities have social contracts which are stated as a set of encouraged behaviours, rather than in the form this document puts them.) 3) inclusiveness purpose. (To make people feel part of something; but if that's it, then the language needs a lot of change, as others have noted.) 4) ...? Are there other options? The risks here are the risk of chasing new contributors away by seeming too formal and of putting up barriers. So I think we should only do this if we have a clearly-defined purpose for it and we then conclude it will do more good than harm. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
