Re: [PATCH] add a Code of Conduct document

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 25, 2019, 12:34 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1909251424380.15067@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20190924210918.GC20858@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:14:55PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
>
> > > +* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or
> > > political attacks
> >
> > Hmm.  Trolling can be helpful, if done right.  I consider this to be
> > a good example: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/.  Wrote
> > some texts that look like that..
>
> I suppose one man's joke is another man's troll. [...]

And we could now try to dive into that rabbit hole and discuss every detail about it, but...

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> [...]
>
> Again, I really think the point here is not to enumerate all
> possibilities. It's to set some general expectations, and to make it
> clear that we value the idea of having a genial atmosphere for
> communication that we have a document and a reporting mechanism.

This is a very important point. No CoC can be complete, ever, just like Git will probably never be complete.

The proposed solution is to give power to a committee of trusted members of the Git developer community. The key word here is _trust_. I don't think there can be any doubt that Junio, Peff, Christian and Ævar have earned the trust of the Git developer community.

For those two reasons, I am totally fine with leaving mostly hypothetical scenarios a little vague. Because I trust that committee.

Ciao, Dscho