Re: Add Code of Conduct [Another RFC or not now?]

[Janek Warchoł]

Graham,

sob., 8 lut 2020 o 21:23 Graham Percival <address@hidden>
napisał(a):

> I don't have any reasons that haven't been mentioned already,
> other than one meta-reason: proposals like this are very divisive.
> Trying to have this discussion in the middle of a "final sprint
> towards 2.20" was unfortunate.
>

True. A big mistake on my part.

David,

sob., 8 lut 2020 o 23:41 David Kastrup <address@hidden> napisał(a):

> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> > I speak from experience on that last point: after the 2012
> > developer meeting at David's ranch (I think that was the year),
> > I was all fired up and started a round of divisive discussions
> > (I think it was the "grand lilypond input syntax standardization").
>
> GLISS was not a new project: it had been ongoing from before my
> involvement.  A bit of a problem was that it had been going on for a
> while without sensible feedback from those who had a good grasp of the
> existing parser/lexer implementation of the input language of LilyPond,
> and that input language had a lot of ad-hoc elements.
>
> > Within 2-3 weeks, I had squandered all of the good feelings and energy
> > sparked from that meeting.  I view that as my worst blunder from all
> > my years of involvement with LilyPond.
>
> Hey, I had chalked this up to my slate.  In retrospect, I saw LilyPond
> in need to grow roots and you saw it in need to grow wings.  And we were
> both excited about its new momentum.  You saw new potential but I am a
> lousy follower: I am unable to follow through with anything that I don't
> see as the best course.  Heck, I am not even good at following through
> with stuff I do see as the best course.
>
> You've clearly been the much better organiser and motivator: the people
> who still keep the "shop running" are doing so in processes originally
> set up by you and given meaning by you.  And I am basically drawing
> blanks when thinking about how to make people pick up the slack when
> someone ultimately leaves.
>
> I still think we should have been able to make this work better between
> us but have no idea how.  And that's bad because LilyPond needs to
> become better at making its community members count, and core
> programmers can only do so much of the heavy lifting even when they are
> all in agreement.
>

Thank you for these words, I find them inspiring!

Janek