Hi. Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > Hiya all, > > As some of you are already aware, I was at the last Council meeting > given a Task. This Task was to draft a proposed Code of Conduct for > Gentoo, and a scheme for enforcing it. The current version of this > proposal can be found at http://dev.gentoo.org/~christel/coc.xml > comments and suggestions both on- and off-list are appreciated. > > Any input will have to be received by Thursday, 15 March, 1200GMT in > order to be useful; the Council will be voting on it later that day at > 2100UTC. > > I would like to thank a few people for their help in getting it to this > stage: the council for review, spb for translating Christelsk into > English (with the help of the OED), nightmorph for making it look > prettier than plain text in vim (without a fancy colourscheme), and > marienz for being sane and reading it over. > > I'd also like to thank our Infrastructure team for working with us and > answering questions regarding the mechanics of enforcing such a code. > > Christelx > > As others have already said, thank you for doing this work. I'm glad to see we're determined to improve communication within Gentoo. However, I also think that 3 days is not enough time for this discussion. This isn't a technical discussion, but it is in no way less important than the discussion about PMS. I only reference that discussion as a currently ongoing discussion that I feel can have the same level of impact as this discussion.
I agree that we need a code of conduct that applies to both developers and users. Furthermore, I also agree developers have additional responsibilities. In my view, there's one important penalty missing from this code of conduct. Actually, the most important penalty - as a last measure, all input from a person to the project will be denied. What I mean is that for worst offenders, Gentoo must be ready to deny any contribution. As I see it, this proposed code penalties for developers start by warnings, go to temporary bans from specific communication channels, include removal of bugzilla or commit privileges, include dev status suspension and as a last resort the removal of dev status. As I see it the proposed penalties for users include warnings, suspensions from specific communication channels and as a last resort a ban from gentoo communication channels. I don't see any reference stating that we won't accept any input from banned users. I believe that the greatest reward anyone can have to participate in Gentoo is getting credit for work done on Gentoo. As such, as a last measure, we must be ready to deny such contribution from banned users - even if done through another person. To be clear, I'm not suggesting we should, or for that matter can, force every member of the community to turn his back to bad user XYZ. What I'm proposing is that we don't accept any work from XYZ through any of our users or devs. It's every developer and user choice to decide whether or not they'll keep interacting with user XYZ outside of our channels, but it's a Gentoo decision to not accept work credited to XYZ. -- Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo-forums / Userrel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
