Re: Code of conduct (bis)

[Adrian Custer <acuster gmail com>]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:06 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 15:02 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A while back, Murray asked the board to pronounce itself on the code of
> > conduct.
> > 
> > We have had several debates on the issue, both on the mailing list and
> > on conference calls, and Murray asked me to relay the conclusions to the
> > membership.
> > 
> > The feeling of the board (a majority opinion, rather than unanimous) is
> > that the code of conduct would be more hurt than helped by being pushed
> > by us. Its adoption really needs to be bottom-up.
> 
> Thanks for being the messenger. I am deeply disappointed by this. I
> think it's a failure of leadership and a failure to stand up for our
> most basic common values. From an otherwise sensible board.
> 
> This was really the only way that this could be done. It will be
> logistically almost impossible for me to individually persuade every
> single mailing list, project maintainer, and sysadmin to endose this
> explicitly. But "GNOME rejects Code of Conduct" is such an awful signal
> that I'll try to do that anyway.

A bottom-up alternative is to compose a page 

  "Code guiding my behaviour when interacting with other GNOME members"

something along the lines of:

  I wish to behave towards the rest of you ...

  If fail to live up to this commitment or offend you in any way, please
  remind me of this commitment...

then sign it and encourage others to sign below. If you get a hundred of
us or so to buy in, you have a "predominant Code of Conduct" and one
that's clearly not imposed.

cheers,
adrian