Re: Code Of Conduct

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
[...]
> > The current hackers appear to be at least somewhat content with the
> > current atmosphere. If we change it too drastically, we run the risk of
> > pushing existing hackers away, or failing to attract new (western/male)
> > ones. And I still haven't seen anything to make me believe that this
> > Code of Conduct would actually attract female/asian/whatever hackers. So
> > the downside is that a CoC might drive away the current hacker
> > demographic AND fail to attract any new hacker demographic.
>
>
> Who's going to be drive away by us stating that we generally think it's
> a good idea not to be nasty? We agree on that so where's the drastic
> threat? Should our consensus say "Sometime's it's OK to flame people.
> That's really fun. Oh, and treat people with dismissive contempt
> sometimes too. They don't matter." Obviously not.

Nobody will be driven away by that, people might be driven away by
us stating that "you now are part of a community with a code of conduct".

The drastic threat is not the ideals/morals that are expressed in the
code; only the fact that its called a "code of conduct"; this title will
definitly be interpreted as a rule book, and the existence of any rule
book will alter the lax nature of the project.

Now ofcourse, simply stating that:
    "we generally think it's a good idea not to be nasty"
would be a great thing... and IMO doesnt need to have anything to do
with putting any kind of code in place.

Cheers,
                        -Tristan