Hi Gábor
On 24/09/2019 10:01, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:44:54AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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After some poking around at various CoC options, this one seemed like
the best fit to me. But I'm open to suggestions or more discussion. It
seems to me that the important piece is having _some_ CoC, and picking
something standard-ish seems a safe bet.
We are decent people, and know how to behave properly and treat each
other with respect. It is my fundamental assumption that all future
contributors are decent and respectful human beings as well.
History suggests that almost all will be decent but there will be one or
two who aren't and cause trouble.
A CoC
like this, which is "explicit about the behavior we want to model"
(quoting the original discussion starter) inherently insinuates that
we aren't decent, and can't behave without being told how to do so.
Frankly, I find this borderline insulting to me, to my parents, to all
fellow contributors, and to future contributors as well.
I don't find it insulting, to me it just sets out that the project
welcomes contributors who behave decently.
There are locations, nationalities and cultures, where the avarage
wide-spread CoCs, like Contributor Covenant and its derivatives, are
perceived as (paraphrasing) too "American", politically overcorrect,
corporate BS, etc., which are forced upon open-source projects.
Consequently, such CoCs are often found rather discouraging, and
announcements about their adoption in open-source projects generally
get negative reaction.
Less is more. Much-much more. A concise CoC that treats its readers
as responsible, well-behaved human beings is met with much approval.
I was pleasantly surprised at how short the proposed CoC is, I don't
think it's too long at all. It only takes a couple of minutes to read
and is quite clear.
Best Wishes
Phillip
Take, for example, the TrueOS Rules of Conduct, which in just a few
short sentences covers everything that's worth covering:
https://www.trueos.org/rulesofconduct/
If diversity and inclusion of other cultures is indeed a priority,
then we should carefully consider that some potential contributors
will rather choose not to contribute because of a CoC like this.
If people are on board with this direction, it might be fun to pick up a
bunch of "Acked-by" trailers from people in the community who agree with
it. It might give it more weight if many members have publicly endorsed
it.
Because of the above I'm leaning towards NACK.
