Proposal: Add more items to the Fedora's CoC

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

it's been some time now that I notice several people being insulted 
or provoked while contributing to Fedora.

One of the possible reasons I see in that is the CoC [1] (Code of 
Conduct) missing several important items and most of all the impossibility to 
enforce its content when a contributor infringes it.

While punishing someone (i.e suspending his/her FAS account for 
example) is definitely not the way to go in a polite community like 
Fedora, I would love writing down together with any other community 
member interested a reviewed CoC document.

That said, I would like to point out a few other things:

1. the CoC's location should definitely be a page under the 
   fedoraproject.org's domain (i.e fp.org/code-of-conduct), and not
   just a two-line wiki page. The CoC is an important document and 
   deserves better publicity and openness.
2. any Fedora contributor before starting his/her contributions should 
   be prompt to accept the CoC like we currently do with the FPCA, I 
   am pretty much sure not everyone out there ever saw the page at [1]. 
3. as I outlined above punishing someone is not the way go, anyway I 
   think taking in front of the Board any of the borderline cases 
   should be a must. (i.e if a contributor breaks the rules several 
   times and gets warned, an action must be taken to avoid the 
   repetition of further infringements)

Feedback's welcome.

cheers,

Andrea

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/Code_of_Conduct
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