Looking for feedback on Fedora COC Enforcement Draft

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 18:37:42 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> 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'.

I wonder if 'I am signing this thing in agreement' would even be
possible if a contributor is using a corporate CLA instead of an
individual one.  I don't immediately see how it would.

josh


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