On Friday, June 8, 2018, Chris Koerner <nob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I for one think that requiring a specific filesystem structure or notice in >> a git repo is quite far afield from the sorts of things that CoC is >> designed to deal with. > > I agree. I do think that as a community of practice we have many > unwritten rules and numerous expectations of how we work together. We > don't explicitly define the expectation of a README.MD file in repos > either.[0] It's a best practice and cultural expectation in our spaces > to include one. The code works the same with or with out it. > > Yeah, sure a coc.md isn’t “the same”, but both are expected as > something we do as a community. If we need to write that down > somewhere so there's no repeat confusion on if it's expected or not, > that seems like a good compromise. However, I'd like to think we don't > have to define everything, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . > > [0] I'm waiting for someone to contradict me on this risky comparison. > :) I could not find anything explicit in > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/New_repositories or > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions > > Yours, > Chris K. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
The issue is, it seems like this is not something we "do" as a community: * There was a previous discussion about requiring coc.md. there was a lot of arguing and no clear "winner", but a very significant portion of the opinions was that CoC.md was highly recommended but not required if the extension maintainer didnt want it. Thus supporting Yaron's position. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165540#3358929 * There is a general community norm that overriding a -2 by a maintainer of a component is an extraordinary action, even more so when the person doing it is not a maintainer of the extension. This situation is no where near clear cut enough to justify that without discusion * Generally speaking, its usually considered in poorform to have an argument about something, lose the argument (or at least not win it), wait a year until people forget about it, and then try and do the exact same thing. -- brian _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
