El dj 03 de 08 del 2006 a les 12:06 +0100, en/na Alan Cox va escriure: > You are the caveman arguing that > since it was ok to whack people on the head with a club during > disagreements last month, its clearly a good idea to continue that way. Not at all. I am a GNOME contributor thinking that real principles are not written, and writing down behavior recommendations doesn't make them stronger. I didn't come up with this idea myself, this is a fact for many psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists analyzing human communities. Different things: behaving well <--> writing down that we must behave well. Different things: not wanting to write down a list of principles to follow <--> not following principles. I haven't seen cave(wo)men in this debate, nor I find them usually in the GNOME community. I see people following principles. I see people behaving, and asking others to behave when there is an exception. Some would accept this CoC, some wouldn't. Most share already a form-less set of unwritten principles. Where is the club whacking in GNOME? There is this (recursive) suggestion that people against the proposed CoC are against principles. I think we are open to a broader, wider and more diverse collection of principles than the ones you can get by writing down a list. Also, there is this association of people against the proposed CoC with anarchism. "If It Works, Don't Fix It" is perhaps a most common denominator, which has to do with efficiency and not ideology. For what I have read, people against the CoC agree that it is probably not going to serve the purpose for what it is being created, and it will surely add trouble where there was no trouble. GNOME needs to standarize software, development processes, interfaces... but do we need to standarize behaviors? I joined a free software project with a common goal, not a country or a civilization. Every time a GNOME contributor is performing an action in this community has already on the shoulders several layers of adopted and accepted moral principles and legal rules, written and unwritten, different from the principles and rules of others. Do we really need to add a written GNOME layer? Are we in such a crisis or menace that we need to create and agree upon an additional ethical layer to behave? Do you really think that writing down "Be nice" makes us nicer and makes us look nicer to the outsiders? -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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