Re: Code Of Conduct

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 6/1/06, Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk> wrote:
> Ar Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:04:43PM +0200, ysgrifennodd Murray Cumming:
> > I don't think we need a whole organisation to police it. At the least, it
> > should just be how we expect people to behave on mailing lists and IRC and
> > it could be up to the administrator of that list or channel to decide
> > whether somone's conduct is unacceptable. But maybe some people would be
> > reassured by the existence of some group that they could go to in extreme
> > circumstances.
> >
> > Here's a simple start:
> > http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct
> >
> > What do you think? What else would you like to see there?
>
> I think this is a long-overdue thing to do.
>
> I also think that there is no fun being part of a "community" which is
> actually arguing the toss on whether "we think people should be courteous
> to each other within this community" is a good thing or not.

I don't think anyone is arguing against being courteous; I'm certainly
not. I just think we'd be better off focusing on actually making
people more courteous, instead of writing rules about it.

Luis