Hi,

On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 8:28:33 AM UTC-5, Andrew wrote:
> ...
> The motivation for suggesting the code was that quite a few people were 
> unhappy with repeated negative comments that appeared in a long series of 
posts.
> ...
> A number of people have stopped contributing to sage because of these 
interactions, 
> and there is a danger that others will stop.

Discussions on sage-devel should not be demotivating for a developper/user 
but I wonder if the code of conduct is the way to make sure this principle 
is respected. It feels like the code of conduct is aiming at that (group 
of) person(s) and the meaning of adopting it goes beyond the text it 
contains. I feel like we should have that real open discussion instead and 
postpone the adoption of any code to a future moment when real discussions 
will be made.

I have seen and read hard comments on the past on sage-devel, but since I 
had the occasion of meeting and discussing with many of the Sage 
developpers before, I was always able to, how to say, relativize the 
hardness knowing the people involved. This might be harder to do when we 
don't know the people involved or when the comment is directed to ourself...

Sébastien

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