On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:27 PM, William Blevins <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not opposed to a CoC; I'm just a skeptic neutral party. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tim Jenness <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > On Dec 10, 2015, at 09:59 , Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > I don't see it that way. I see it as a proactive, positive step. >> > >> >> +1 >> >> > Look, right now there's a lot of, well, not-so-nice people in the world. >> > Many of them hang out online. This isn't PC, it's a fact of modern life. >> > This isn't going to get better; I think it's getting worse if anything. >> > Saying "hey, we're a friendly and welcoming community" isn't pandering, >> > it's >> > accepting that not everyone is nice, but saying we aim to be. >> >> The scons list has been fine in the 6 months I’ve been here. Funnily >> enough it is only this recent code of conduct debate that has worried me >> with talk of victims and SJW. >> >> I think a code of conduct would be great and I imagine it would have zero >> effect on this community internally. The code of conduct is also an outwards >> facing item, though, that indicates to people that scons is welcoming to new >> people asking questions. Why would we object to that? > > > I just think that people are innocent until proven guilty. If your > organization needs a CoC, then I think that says something about the > organization or perhaps about society. I am a skeptic of anyone who needs to > wave a flag around saying that "we are descent people, believe us!" I see a > CoC as that flag. I try not to judge, but it's the pessimist in me...
+1. Can't say better. > I think that people who don't need to read the CoC will behave > appropriately, and those who won't behave appropriately won't read the CoC. > It isn't that people don't know the rules, some people just don't care. -- anatoly t. _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
