Hi, (This is hopefully my last mail for catching up with this thread ;-))
Le mercredi 25 novembre 2009, à 12:48 +0000, Lucas Rocha a écrit : > Hi all, > > The Board has recently received some complaints from members of the > community about certain the inappropriate behaviors. In the context of > GNOME Foundation, it's really hard to argue about how we expect our > members to behave if there is no official guidelines that members are > supposed to comply with. The GNOME Code of Conduct[1] has been serving > very well as an informal guideline for the community but we'd like to > make it an official document that new Foundation members are expected > to explicitly agree[2] with before being accepted. This way we'll have a > common ground for dealing with certain conflict situations and avoid > trying to base our discussions on guidelines that certain members > haven't explicitly agreed on. > > Before deciding on this, we thought it would be useful to get some > feedback from the community. This is the first mail of the thread. And I'm really sad of the way the thread went. I'm certainly guilty myself of not taking time to read it and participate earlier to try to moderate things, but we should all be able to step back and moderate a thread when it apparently needs to be moderated... First, let me state it: the original proposal has nothing to do with Planet GNOME. If you have an issue with Planet GNOME, you're free to state it publicly, of course, but you can also directly contact the editors. We even put some documentation to answer most questions: http://live.gnome.org/PlanetGnome And if you read that page, you'll see that the editors expect people on Planet GNOME to respect the Code of Conduct. I'm not aware of a case where we removed a post or a blog because of this, but if this needs to happen, then fine, we'll do it. (and yes, the editors are not perfect, and are not always replying in time, and are doing mistakes and all that, so keep this in mind please ;-)) Now, back to the original proposal. The idea is that we want the GNOME project to be a cool place. With great people. Where newcomers feel welcome. And all that. I'd love a rainbow, and illimited ice cream, btw. That what is already behind the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct is only stating the obvious. There's nothing revolutionary there. There are surely some cases where it doesn't help us. We can also all have a bad day and not respect the Code of Conduct at some point -- if this happens, as long as we can acknowledge that we could have had a more appropriate behavior, it's fine. If you think that having a "Yes, I agree that I should try to be polite" requirement for GNOME Foundation membership is bad, then, well, okay; that just means you might share one of the values of the GNOME Foundation. Is it the end of the world? No. Does that make it impossible to contribute to GNOME? No. (Hint: you don't have to be a GNOME Foundation member to contribute.) This is really all about explaining to the world what are values are, and trying to lead by the example. This is not about adding rules. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list