On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsep...@rtems.org> wrote: > On 11/10/2014 06:11 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote: > >> While at the GSOC Mentor Summit, I heard a story from another >> organization about some inappropriate behavior by someone. >> They were fairly easily able to deal with this because their >> organization had an agreed upon Community Code of Conduct (CCoC). >> This provides guidelines on expected behavior as well as what >> will occur if these are violated. > > > As you may know, I am opposed to any such Code of Conducts, as well as I do > not see any need for the RTEMS list to implement one. > > > Why? > > a) The issues you mention have never been a problem to the RTEMS list. > That said I feel you trying to implement problems to a current non-issue. > It is better to be prepared and to make the community's intentions obvious.
> b) I for one consider "Code of Conducts" to an ongoing fashion/hype, which > as I feel probably, originates from certain tendencies in US-society. > This comment is a violation of our community code of conduct. Please try to be more respectful of cultures other than your own. > c) I have seen many occassions, where "Code of Conducts" have been applied > as a means of censorship to silence and suppress oppositions in case of > disagreement or dispute. > Our code of conduct intends to suppress aggressive behavior. Disagreement is expected in the nature of open-source development, but any disputes should be civil, as outlined in the document. > d) Some of these project who are proud to have implemented a "Code of > Conduct" wonder about loosing users. Why? cf. c) > The problem of a user or developer feeling repressed by our code of conduct must be addressed if it arises. However, if an individual is repressed simply by the fact we have a code of conduct, I question the value of that individual as a member of an open and tolerant community. Gedare > Ralf > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@rtems.org > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
