[gentoo-project] [RFC] CoC change to encourage clear communication

[Michał Górny]

Hi,

I'd like to propose amending Gentoo's CoC through adding the following
point:

- *Use concise and clear language.* The Gentoo community includes
people from all over the world, with varying English skills and
available time.


Rationale:

The primary purpose of communication on Gentoo media is to share
information.  In order for this goal to be achieved, it is important
that the recipients of the message (presumably arbitrary Gentoo users
following the mailing lists) can understand these messages.

Furthermore, we should note that people don't have infinite time to
spend on reading mails.  Both sending unnecessarily long mails
and using hard to understand language means that both users and
developers have to spend ever increasing amount of time to participate
or at least follow conversations.  Eventually, it means that some
people who can't afford to read all the text are excluded.

In my opinion, it's also a matter of respecting others and their time.
In the extreme case, some people are deliberately participating
in the described way in order to waste other people's time, to exclude
them if they can't manage to keep up, to push their ideas forward while
drowning the opposition in the storm of long replies.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny