On 7/15/05, Toshio Kuratomi <toshio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My position is that a polite boiler can keep a lot of these sprawling, > accusatory threads from spiralling so far. I hope you are right...and i am wrong. > But preventing it through > fear of punishment is the point at which making fedora-devel a better > environment for development starts conflicting with presenting fedora as > an open community project. Even open forums can have published acceptable conduct policies. There is nothing inherently contradictory with have enforcable rules of conduct and openness. Whether or not expected conduct should cover what we are talking about is a judgement. Certaintly more grotesque and disrespectful behavior can be moderated out without rational people getting up in arms about it, thankful we don't have that sort of problem. > Contractually, I agree with you. Perceptually I think it sends the > message that Fedora is courting a community of yes-men. There are several things I could say in response to this, but in an effort to keep from spawnning yet another flamewar I will refrain from showing the extent that I disagree with several unspoken assumptions made in that sentence and just be your yes-man and agree with you... without threat of moderation. Make sure you choose your volunteer group of boilerplate wielding volunteers carefully. I've seen people still get offended by the use of boilerplate simply because of a grudge against the person who posted the boilerplate. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
