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Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: |
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> Hiya all, |
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> As some of you are already aware, I was at the last Council meeting |
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> given a Task. This Task was to draft a proposed Code of Conduct for |
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> Gentoo, and a scheme for enforcing it. The current version of this |
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> proposal can be found at http://dev.gentoo.org/~christel/coc.xml |
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> comments and suggestions both on- and off-list are appreciated. |
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> Any input will have to be received by Thursday, 15 March, 1200GMT in |
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> order to be useful; the Council will be voting on it later that day at |
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> 2100UTC. |
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> I would like to thank a few people for their help in getting it to this |
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> stage: the council for review, spb for translating Christelsk into |
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> English (with the help of the OED), nightmorph for making it look |
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> prettier than plain text in vim (without a fancy colourscheme), and |
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> marienz for being sane and reading it over. |
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> I'd also like to thank our Infrastructure team for working with us and |
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> answering questions regarding the mechanics of enforcing such a code. |
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> Christelx |
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Having lots of experience in this I feel I can bring some constructive |
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criticism here. |
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It is written in a manner that has no direction. It is far too tentative |
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and as such comes over as suggestions rather than a set of rules that |
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one has to adhere to. The language should be changed so that /these are |
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the rules and these are the consequences/ For example: "Acceptable |
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behaviour: Things that we do want to see" should be changed to something |
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like "This is what Gentoo considers to be acceptable. Any posts not |
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adhering to this will subject to deletion and poster may be subject to |
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removal from the subsequent information channel." |
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It is necessary for everyone to know exactly where they stand because |
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any ambiguity can be used by those who wish to disrupt and so far that |
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has caused many users and developers to leave. |
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If you want an example see the rules I made for the userreps forum. If |
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you need any help, contact me. |
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George |
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