Hello, I’m talking on behalf of the Pharo Board here. As start, we accepted Serge’s proposition without actually discussing it much because we didn’t think it was going to be really a problem. Our community has been self-regulating since the beginning and we were doing it fine until now. Once or twice we (the board) needed to act, but never had a real situation as the ones the CoC tries to cover. So, we can say we opened the umbrella without rain, just in case.
Now, after observe the situation, we have decided to retract the code. But sadly, we cannot just remove it and let things continue as before because as it’s know “it you open a can or worms, you will need a bigger can to put them back in”. Which means now we need a code of conduct. So we are going to take the simplest one we could find that still can serve our community, you can see it here: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/4660 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/4660> This PR will be accepted, but as anything in our community, you can still discuss it and propose modifications. Just remember be respectful of people disagreeing with your ideas :) Cheers, Esteban PS: As personal note: I blocked a github user that insulted a member of our community, a user who did not had history with us (or any other visible project), who did not had a name or ways to contact him so I assumed it was just another troll. Now, he identifies himself here... I will unblock him, but that does not means the kind of disrespectful messages he sent can be sent :) > On 19 Sep 2019, at 19:47, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > > makes me wonder whether he's such a machiavellian sociopath, or a useful > idiot. > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 23:07, Eugen Leitl via Pharo-users > <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>> wrote: > Let's see, I've posted one email to this list describing the dangers > of abusing CoCs > > I guess you refer to this one... > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 19:39, Eugen Leitl via Pharo-users > > <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>> wrote: > > I agree. Technical people are too easy to exploit by malignant manipulators > > of people. > > All too often they don't even realize it after the fact. > > Thats fairly benign and doubt it had anything to do with being blocked on > github. > > > and one post to GitHub describing the motivations of > people who introduce CoCs, and immediately get banned on GitHub from > > Note, the board member who blocked your GIthub account and deleted your post > there > also voiced their opinion as being... > For me a "welcome and be nice" should be enough to just continue as > before. > I find the introduction of CoC was a noise we didn't need, > our community was doing well and self-regulated without problem until now. > > So in spite of your implication, I doubt there is anything sinister from the > CoC in play here. > Comments such as "makes me wonder whether he's such a machiavellian > sociopath, or a useful idiot." > have been consistently condemned years before thought of a CoC. > > > I'm getting called a troll and a nobody in public by members of the project, > > Its not that you are a "nobody", but actually you were "unknown to us" two > days ago. > Maybe you don't know Serge, but we've know him for years and his good work > including governance of our GSoC participation > so please consider why such comments from a newcomer may be dealt with as a > troll. > Community standards do not maintain themselves: They're maintained by people > actively applying them, visibly, in public. > > Now personally I'm not going to condemn you on one slip. > I've been told to pull my head in before and they were right - I was venting > after a bad day at work. But no one held it against me long. > These nontechnical and emotion-charge debates are infrequent and I hope get a > chance to see how things normally run once we are past it. > > cheers -ben
