Looking for feedback on Fedora COC Enforcement Draft

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Wed Mar 2 19:11:51 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:33:50AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:19:49 -0600
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 13:17:00 -0500,
> >   Ricky Zhou <ricky at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > On 2011-03-02 12:12:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > > It seems to be overly heavy handed way to make people aware of
> > > > the policy. I'd rather see it treated like other policies people
> > > > are expected to follow.
> > > Is there any particular reason we don't want to be heavy handed with
> > > making people aware of it?
> > 
> > I think being heavy handed results in a negative perception even if
> > the policy is good. It also seems to set an expectation that people
> > are bad by default. 
> 
> I have no problem personally with notifying people of the code of
> conduct, but I don't think we should require them to explicitly click a
> 'I am signing this thing in agreement'. 

AFAICT the purpose of requiring signatures, or the equivalent
(clicking buttons, etc.) is to make it possible to sue people. You
don't seriously want to, or think you will be able to, sue people who
violate the Code of Conduct, right?

- RF



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