Fedora code of conduct

[Mike McGrath]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.

A code of conduct shows a lack of respect for the community' autonomy.  
I think it ain't broke, lets not fix it.  We've got far better things 
that need documenting.

    -Mike