Fedora code of conduct

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 06:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> The recent Gentoo mailing lists flamewar[1] leading to developers 
>> quitting and subsequent adoption of a code of conduct[2], it might be 
>> useful for us to proactively put in a code of conduct for all of Fedora 
>> mandatory for all the contributors and for users as well as a prominent 
>> note for all the mailing lists subscribers and possibly other means. We 
>> haven't had major issues such as these but as well as scale to more 
>> contributors it would good to have a mechanism like this and enforce 
>> that. Comments?
> 
> I read their proposed code.  While the idea behind it is basically "be
> nice to each other" and that is a good thing, I don't think Fedora needs
> this at the moment.  I agree with spot in that I'd rather cross that
> bridge when it's needed.
> 
> And I particularly dislike the whole "proctor" concept and introducing
> something like seems entirely pointless and draconian at the moment.

Asking the community to agree to a code of conduct which in your own 
words just reads as be nice to each others is somehow draconian? It is 
not pointless when someone indulge in trolling and name calling and few 
others quit contributing because of that. When we scale you can be rest 
assured that such behavior will happen.

Rahul