On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Amber "Hawkie" Brown <hawk...@atleastfornow.net> wrote: > >> On 21 Jun 2015, at 19:00, Hynek Schlawack <h...@ox.cx> wrote: >> >>>> I am sure everyone understands that the Twisted community would love more >>>> diversity. While it is hard to achieve, it should be easy to remove one of >>>> the obvious blockers -- making underrepresented groups feel more welcome. >>> Thanks for taking this on, Moshe. >> >> +1 >> >>>> My current draft, including instructions on how to build it, is in >>>> https://github.com/moshez/twisted-coc . I have intentionally not made the >>>> built documents available, in an attempt to avoid someone picking them up >>>> before they're approved by us. >>> >>> Why isn't this repository either (A) just a simple text file saying "we >>> have adopted the Django CoC" or (B) a very small fork of something else? >>> One of the concerns is licensing; if the text comes via Django, Django >>> credits the "Speak Up!" project, which is CC-BY, apparently from this >>> repository: <https://github.com/jnoller/talk-mentorship>. Another is... is >>> Twisted really distinct enough to need its own CoC? Just s/Django/Twisted >>> might be good enough? (Since this is not a fork, figuring out if anything >>> else has changed is rather tedious, even after having read both ;)). >> >> I wonder whether it might make sense to just say we adopt >> https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ ? >> >> What I would really love is if we could have our own diversity statement >> like Django has: https://www.djangoproject.com/diversity/ > > The Django one is more explicit -- it's rather sad that it needs to be, but > it does lay out more directly the unacceptable behaviours. > > That being said, it's not an unchangeable document -- if it doesn't suit the > community's needs, we can modify it to suit.
So that CoCs are just a set of rules to ban users expressed in a vague legal form, so that people can not complain, because they don't understand. Is that right? =) -- anatoly t. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
