This. The links should be in the interfaces in which we actually
interact with each other, not the repositories themselves. A repository
isn't even inherently a wikimedia technical space because it can be
cloned anywhere, as Yaron rightfully points out; using
gerrit/phab/things wikimedia manages to interact with it, however, is.
Yes, people could potentially use those without going through the
frontend UI, but it'd still hold. For them, if anything, it'd be even
more important not to clutter up the repositories with redundant files,
as they're working with more limited tools to begin with.
Given that these files don't contain anything meaningful (just a link,
thus requiring an extra step regardless to find the content); that
developers won't have any particular reason to open these files from the
repository while interacting with others, as the interaction that the
CoC covers happens via tools such as gerrit/phab/etc; and that these
files won't even be visible when people are using said tools as said
tools normally show only what's currently being modified, I highly
recommend losing the COC.md files entirely. It's clutter, to no
particular gain. Generic advertising, at best, in an often irrelevant place.
-I
On 08/06/18 06:50, Nischay Nahata wrote:
The right place for COC related stuff is probably on the Gerrit user
interface.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 11:48 AM Daniel Zahn <dz...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:40 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com>
wrote:
My personal opinion is twofold:
I agree with Max here. The CoC applies anyways whether the file is in the
repo or not
because Wikimedia infrastructure is being used.
But we should not make it mandatory to keep a copy of this file in each and
every repo.
I don't see how "not having the file
is against the CoC itself" because it certainly doesn't say anything about
that, in that regard Yaron
is correct.
--
Daniel Zahn <dz...@wikimedia.org>
Operations Engineer
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