Fedora code of conduct

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 07:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 06:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> The recent Gentoo mailing lists flamewar[1] leading to developers 
> >> quitting and subsequent adoption of a code of conduct[2], it might be 
> >> useful for us to proactively put in a code of conduct for all of Fedora 
> >> mandatory for all the contributors and for users as well as a prominent 
> >> note for all the mailing lists subscribers and possibly other means. We 
> >> haven't had major issues such as these but as well as scale to more 
> >> contributors it would good to have a mechanism like this and enforce 
> >> that. Comments?
> > 
> > I read their proposed code.  While the idea behind it is basically "be
> > nice to each other" and that is a good thing, I don't think Fedora needs
> > this at the moment.  I agree with spot in that I'd rather cross that
> > bridge when it's needed.
> > 
> > And I particularly dislike the whole "proctor" concept and introducing
> > something like seems entirely pointless and draconian at the moment.
> 
> Asking the community to agree to a code of conduct which in your own 
> words just reads as be nice to each others is somehow draconian? It is 
> not pointless when someone indulge in trolling and name calling and few 
> others quit contributing because of that. When we scale you can be rest 
> assured that such behavior will happen.

No.  I said the proctor part would be draconian _at the moment_.  The
draconian reference was only to the proctor part of that document.

I'm not going to repeat my whole previous email.  I said I don't think
it's needed _at the moment_.  That's my opinion and if others wish to
adopt some kind of code of conduct which by and large just documents
common sense then by all means go forth and adopt.

josh