Re: Add Code of Conduct

[James Lowe]

On 07/02/2020 09:50, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Thanks for your careful observations.
>
> First, the CoC was actually coined by Mike, and I saw it as a proposal to
> bring LilyPond into the next decade.

What is that even supposed to mean? Again empty, ]words that sound 
'nice' but mean nothing.

> A CoC is a pretty normal concept these
> days.

Here we go ... ".. everyone else does it... so we should .. " still with 
no point to any of it that I can see.

> If having a CoC is required to be taken seriously by developers at
> large, we should consider it.
And for those of us who don't take them seriously and see them as an 
attempt at behavioral control by certain people for certain people.
> I concede that CoCs haven't yet reached this
> level of ubiquity, though.
Probably for good reason.
> For full disclosure, David has ticked me off in the past, and reacquainting
> myself with the community means that I have to reacquaint myself with
> David's way of communicating.

Can we just stop bashing David?

> One of the recent emails (about the
> development process), contained a passage that felt like a blow in my
> stomach and upset me to the point of considering to leave again. (When I
> say this, I am not asking for adulation). If that happens to me, imagine
> what happens when a new contributor is on the receiving end of that. So I
> am happy to see that David is trying new ways to address this problem.

All without having at CoC.

> I have no personal stake in being a CoC committee member, and was actually
> volunteered into it by Janek. I am happy to not be part of such a committee
> (Elaine, would you be interested?), because my time is limited, and is
> probably best spent in mentoring coders and explaining the code base. For
> the record, I think Werner is an excellent candidate.
If we're doing a 'for the record', then just let me state here if/when 
we have a CoC, I will be leaving the LP project , so I guess you better 
start getting all your automation ducks in a row for patch testing and 
shepherding etc, or someone else will need to step in do what I 
currently do.

What a shame.

James