Fedora code of conduct

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 21 02:16:27 UTC 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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.

We dont need to copy anything at all from Gentoo's code of conduct. That 
was just an example as concept. If you prefer here is another 
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct

Rahul




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