Hi Till,

> On Jul 20, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Till Wegmüller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 18.07.2016 23:35, Adam Števko wrote:
>> 
>> Please compose your thoughts and comment with as few replies as
>> necessary so the community may solidify the final text of this document.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Adam
>> 
> 
> Hi Adam, Hi Nikola
> 
> Thanks both of you for the work put into this.
> 
> Here are my thought and comments:
> When reading Adams text it refers to a body of Leadership. Both source 
> Projects (FreeBSD and FiFo) have such a Role defined. Do we have that?

Not anything official right now. Every decision was made by one of the 
contributors and we tried to reach a consensus. If the decision was too 
important, project contributors consulted those topics with various people and 
tried to do their best. However, most things were mostly technical and not 
political. Unless leader steps up or different governing body is found, there 
isn’t anything. The deciding comes as a part of moving the project forward.

I have also discussed this topic with Alexander today and we both concluded 
that we has just killed the time with it. We are small developer community, 
(mostly) nice to each other and try to help. I also think that every 
contributor has found his place within a project already. If any proposal came 
from me, I’d just make the present situation official, but there are certainly 
drawbacks to it.

> Adams text is more worded towards being a set of rules. Nikolas more in the 
> sense of expectations. I prefer expectations.

Problem with expectations in Nikola’s list is that majority of them are already 
in practice and the situation is out of hands.

> When I read the words "will not be tolerated" it imediatly raises the 
> question what will hapen if i break those? Who punshes and how? In my opinion 
> "Discouraged behaviour" is the better wording.

The point of using “strong” words is to show that we take it seriously. If 
rules are broken, the situation is going to be handled privately to avoid any 
(more) drama on the mailing list and ensure that the problem is solved. And who 
punishes? The CoC states that distribution maintainers are the one to do so. We 
can change it as it is a draft. Perhaps, somebody could volunteer. I can assure 
you that nobody wants to do it and behave like a teacher in the kinder garden. 
Fortunately, the community hadn’t had to solve any serious issues and there 
weren’t any

> I prefer the managing misuse and escalation section over the reporting 
> violations. We have a very friendly community. There should not be a need to 
> involve a third party to resolve issues from the very beginning.
> 
> The very notion of twitter is that everything is public.

Twitter as a medium has private DM and it's rather usual to use it. It just an 
another communication channel. If you insist, we can remove it.

> I find the point "Maintain welcoming environment for new contributors and 
> guide them in contributions." very important. I would like to have that in.

I’ll add it, thanks.

> What is the desired outcome of a code of conduct? Should it be a set of 
> rules? Or a set of expectations from each other? Is it assumed to be the same 
> for all codes of conducts? If so should we link to that definition? or do we 
> need to define that?

The whole idea behind the code of conduct is to show the community and the 
outside world that we are a community of people, who don’t tolerate toxic 
people. There are multiple problems with such people, most present in OI:

- community members are unsubscribing from the list - there has been too much 
drama in the past few months and it needs to be stopped. Nobody wants to deal 
with toxic people. You could see one example right in this email thread.
- public debates - many things are debated in the private because people want 
to work on the project and have something done. If you send out an email to 
oi-dev mailing list, the email is quickly going to hijacked or made off-topic. 
Who has the energy to deal with it every time?

With CoC in place, we can simply show the potential new users and also those, 
who unsubscribed that situation changed and that we mean it seriously. After 
all, everybody wants to have a peaceful and enjoyable time while 
using/developing OI.
However, that can’t be reached while toxic people are present.

Cheers,
Adam

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