Sarah Sharp: ok, the obvious: there are trolls, and some of them got to you. They are and will try to make you a troll also. ( the evil come to you with "good" intentions ) My advice: stick to technical problems. You are used to start an flamewar. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:01:02AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> I know you think "being nice" is better, but do you actually have any >> evidence for this, or is it just wishful thinking? If you don't have >> hard evidence, then I'd say you have to admit it's simply your >> opinion, and I don't think the most successful software project in >> history should change one if it's core principles simply because *you* >> think it should. > > I haven't shared any "hard evidence" that civility works better in open > source projects, because to do so would be to bring gender politics into > the equation. I don't want to make this into a gendered issue, but > since you want hard numbers, I will. > > Go look at Dreamwidth, the open source Livejournal fork. It has a good > code of conduct, so developers are civil to each other. They encourage > all patch submissions, and take the time to work with people who don't > understand their community rules. > > The result: 75% of their developers are women. If you give a flying > fuck about diversity, and want to attract women to your open source > project, your developers need to be civil, and not verbally abuse each > other. > > Sarah Sharp > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html