Re: Code Of Conduct

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

I would hate to see us resort to written, legalistic rules (which
encourage gaming and letter-of-law over spirit-of-law) when a strong
culture should suffice, particularly at our size. What it feels like
such a thing advertises is 'we're so weak we need rules where common
sense and politeness should suffice', not 'we care.'

Additionally, this feels like a solution looking for a problem- have
we ever had significant problems stopping aggressive or rude behavior?
We haven't had any of it on any of the primary mailing lists since
crazy orb-boy that I can remember, and that was dealt with fairly
promptly.

Luis

On 5/30/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> I would like GNOME to have a code of conduct to:
>
> 1.
> Make it easier to stop aggressive or rude behaviour. This discourages new
> contributors, though I think we are pretty good compared to some less
> user-centric F/OSS communities.
>
> 2.
> Advertise to the world that we are already a pleasant welcoming community.
>
> I think this is a big part of Ubuntu's success at getting new
> contributors. But I'd like our code of conduct to be a little shorter and
> 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?
>
>
> Murray Cumming
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