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On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 09:23 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:13:54 +0100 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I'd like to propose amending Gentoo's CoC through adding the |
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> > following |
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> > point: |
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> > - *Use concise and clear language.* The Gentoo community includes |
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> > people from all over the world, with varying English skills and |
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> > available time. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Rationale: |
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> > |
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> > The primary purpose of communication on Gentoo media is to share |
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> > information. In order for this goal to be achieved, it is |
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> > important |
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> > that the recipients of the message (presumably arbitrary Gentoo |
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> > users |
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> > following the mailing lists) can understand these messages. |
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> > Furthermore, we should note that people don't have infinite time to |
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> > spend on reading mails. Both sending unnecessarily long mails |
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> > and using hard to understand language means that both users and |
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> > developers have to spend ever increasing amount of time to |
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> > participate |
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> > or at least follow conversations. Eventually, it means that some |
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> > people who can't afford to read all the text are excluded. |
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> > In my opinion, it's also a matter of respecting others and their |
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> > time. |
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> > In the extreme case, some people are deliberately participating |
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> > in the described way in order to waste other people's time, to |
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> > exclude |
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> > them if they can't manage to keep up, to push their ideas forward |
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> > while |
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> > drowning the opposition in the storm of long replies. |
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> I can certainly appreciate the benefits of this as I just haven't had |
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> the time to read most of the recent... uh... discussions. However, |
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> the |
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> idea of enforcing something like this doesn't bear thinking about. It |
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> reminds me way too much of 1984's Newspeak. If we're not going to |
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> enforce it then there seems little point in including it. The most |
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> verbose posters are unlikely to cut down just because we asked them |
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> nicely. |
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While I do realize some people might be doing this on purpose, I think |
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that at least some simply don't realize the problem. I believe having |
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it spelled verbosely in the CoC would help people realize that it is |
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a real problem and be more considerate in the future. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |