Re: Add Code of Conduct (issue 575620043 by address@hidden)

[David Kastrup]

Another remark:

Mike Solomon <address@hidden> writes:

> At the Salzburg meetup, one common thing a lot of people brought up
> was a slow-down in development and a shrinking pool of contributors.
> IMO we should do several experiments to fix this. The CoC I proposed
> is used in over 40,000 projects including many of the most active and
> diverse open source projects on github, so it seems like a reasonable
> experiment.

I think that may be confusing cause and effect.  I consider it more
likely that people saw a necessity of formalising relations and
communication _because_ they were amongst the most active and diverse
groups than the other way round.

> If it proves to be a dud, we can get rid of it.

I'd prefer to do it the other way round: if we can to a reasonable
degree agree that our communication has become a dud, that may be
incentive to get a hold of it.

Independent of promising corrective measures, I would not object to
quoting the GNU kind communication guidelines on our web pages and
asking contributors to give them a good thought.

Quoting relevant parts where people's communication are in obvious need
of improvement are also appropriate.

What I find less effective is just name-dropping of either CoC or the
GNU guidelines without referencing a particular passage.  Probably more
so with the latter since they do not contain an inherent threat.

-- 
David Kastrup