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

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Wol,

> The worry is that said developer may decide his talents
> are better spent elsewhere, and he'll quit ...

We need to weigh that concert against the documented reality that multiple 
other developers have already done so, and the worry that more might follow (or 
never join in the first place).

> a quick skim of the emails says to me this is rapidly turning into a toxic 
> tragedy of the commons.

100% agreed.

> The REAL tragedy is OUTSIDERS coming in, thinking things
> are being mis-managed, and imposing their own rules.

What about insiders like me — here in the Pond for 17 years — who agree that 
things are being mismanaged?

> [gentoo] lost an awful lot of developers a while back because a couple of
> developers turned toxic and, in *private* conversations, drove a lot
> people on the edge away. They finally got thrown out, but it took the
> project a LONG time to recover.

I would suggest that "developers turn[ing] toxic" was the problem, not the 
private or public nature of the conversation(s).

> another woman in the same venue who just accepted that it was a male 
> environment
> with no malicious intent but that she just couldn't take it when the 
> testosterone got out of hand.
> It IS a hard nut to crack.

Actually, that nut is pretty easy to crack, I believe: don’t allow testosterone 
to get out of hand. #problemsolved

Cheers,
Kieren.
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