Re: [PATCH] add a Code of Conduct document

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 24, 2019, 15:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20190924155036.GA5318@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1909241426580.15067@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 03:20:42PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > If diversity and inclusion of other cultures is indeed a priority,
> > then we should carefully consider that some potential contributors
> > will rather choose not to contribute because of a CoC like this.
> 
> Let me be blunt for a minute. The proposed CoC would not change anything
> for any contributor I consider decent. Not one thing. There would not be
> any need to change any behavior, no need to complain, they could just
> read the CoC and say: "Yep, that's right, that's exactly how I want to
> behave, and that's how I want the others in this project to behave. Back
> to this bug I wanted to debug/this feature I wanted to implement..."

Thanks for your response, Dscho. I was all set to reply to Gábor, but you made all my points for me. :)

In particular, I think this paragraph is key. I don't think this CoC is asking to change anything about how we work or communicate currently. I view it as writing down the status quo (which is valuable for the reasons I mentioned in the commit message).

(None of which is to say that people might not have disagreements that need resolving, or that discussions about communication style aren't welcome; just that I think the CoC is at a more meta level).

-Peff