> On Apr 24, 2019, at 12:11 PM, Matthew Ahrens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 5:17 PM Richard Yao <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The following sentence is overly broad: >> >> "In addition, conduct outside these spaces may affect a person's ability >> to participate within them." > > Richard, thanks for your input and for suggesting a specific change. Here is > our reasoning behind this sentence: > > Harmful behavior has an impact regardless of the venue, and especially if the > behavior is in public. For example, if someone is harassing a community > member on social media, that creates a problem for the community because the > target of harassment is (quite reasonably) deterred from participating in the > OpenZFS community if their harasser is a member of our community. Another > example would be if someone makes discriminatory or threatening statements > against groups of people (women, minorities, etc). This creates a problem > for the community because people won’t feel comfortable or safe interacting > with someone who behaves this way. If these type of problems arise, we > intend to address them, which is why we wrote this sentence in the Code of > Conduct. As with any conduct issues, the way that these problems are > addressed will depend on the particulars. For example, we would hope that > informing someone that their behavior is harming others would be sufficient > to prevent the incident from repeating. Is an omission from the CoC going to prevent us from taking action in a situation where we clearly should take action? If not, then it should be fine to keep the CoC’s scope more narrow until we have gained experience with it.
I would like to hope for the best, but in the back of my mind, I have the question of “how could things possibly go wrong?” and the idea that the CoC might somehow backfire on us occurred to me. This is the reason why I would rather that we gain experience with a more narrowly scoped initial CoC that has limited ambiguity in what it promises that we will do. By the way, given how much work and private lives mix these days, I would consider twitter to be a professional forum. It is certainly that way how some people use it. > > --matt > zfsonlinux / Discuss / see discussions + participants + delivery options > Permalink ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T5dc11696c7b4bddb-M5bb3d00c7db92287e48e2b58 Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
