Thanks for your answers. I'm glad to hear that there might be room for some form of dialogue on wording.
Cheers! Alex Thorsten Wilms writes: > On 31/10/2018 09.58, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: >> Out of curiosity, would you personally feel better about the CoC if it >> used terms such as "This community commits to" or "This community >> pledges to" insteead of "We as contributors commit to"? > > In as far as contributing doesn't make one part of the community > ... it would be a slight improvement. On the other hand, it's just > vaguer about whom it puts words into their mouths. > > >> I ask because one of the positives about the CC wording from my >> perspective is that it specifically makes it a collective responsibility >> to uphold certain norms, and not just the responsibility of the >> "projec authorities". It is understood that there are specific channels >> for dealing with violations of those norms, but the community as a whole >> stands behind that. > > Yeah, that's the positive reading. A negative is that it is an attempt > to push people to declare a mixed bag as their own, with no voice in > the process (other than take it or leave it). One that contains > hard-to-argue-with aspects, but also questionable and vague parts.
