[gentoo-project] Re: Code of conduct (was: Council meeting: Tuesday 2013-10-08, 19:00 UTC)

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, Andreas K Huettel wrote:

> 2. Resume discussion on the new Code of Conduct [2-5]

I'd like to resume the discussion already now, before the meeting.

1. I think that section "Limited list of bad behaviour examples" could
be improved. In its current form, it is mostly redundant with the
second paragraph of "Be respectful".

Furthermore, it goes too far if the scope of that section applies to
Gentoo mirrors, i.e. package content:

  <ulm> scarabeus: section "examples of inappropriate behavior", could
        you clarify what is considered as "public accessible areas"?
        would gentoo mirrors count as such?
  <scarabeus> oh yes, those do count
  [quoted from log of 20130611 council meeting]

This would imply mirror restriction for some of our packages
(mostly fortune cookies and some artwork, but also packages like
app-admin/sudo). However, with USE=offensive we already have a
mechanism in place that covers such cases, so I believe that no
further action is needed there.

I therefore suggest that we replace the whole section by the
"Unacceptable behaviour" section from our current CoC:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/Code_of_conduct#Unacceptable_behaviour

2. The last section uses the term "enforcer". According to
Merriam-Webster dictionary:

  Definition of ENFORCER
  1 :  one that enforces
  2 a :  a violent criminal employed by a crime syndicate;
         especially : hit man 1
    b :  player (as in ice hockey) known for rough play and fighting

It looks like the word has negative connotations and should be
avoided. (The current CoC uses "proctor" instead.) But maybe native
speakers could comment on this?

3. The text should use consistent spelling. Currently, both British
("behaviour") and American ("honored") spelling variants occur.

Ulrich

> [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3061
> [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2470
> [4] http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~scarabeus/gentoo-coc.txt
> [5] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130611.txt