Proposal for ML conduct

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 05/15/2009 12:16 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > The Board had a long discussion today about the increasingly toxic
> > nature of discussions on Fedora Project mailing lists.  The meeting
> > minutes are available on the wiki[1], as always.  I wanted to point
> > specifically to the proposal currently before the Board.
> >
> >
> > The problem:  The Board is disappointed at the degradation in tone and
> > signal of some Fedora Project lists.
>
> Why focus only on the mailing lists? How about IRC, forums or other
> means of communication? For the record, IRC conversations in #fedora
> have frequently been problematic as well. I think, you can bite the
> bullet and formalize a code of conduct now as I suggested a while back.
> If you are willing to ban a person for behaving rudely in a mailing
> list, I am sure that it can be used as a enforcing mechanism for a code
> of conduct. IIRC, that was the issue against it before.
>
> A question to think about: What do you when a Red Hat employee working
> full on time Fedora does this? Do you ban that person from the project
> as well? Not suggesting anyone is actually doing this. Just something to
> think about.
>

I'd think last resort you go to management chain.  I know I was a real
prick to Rahul just earlier this week :)

	-Mike