On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 21:40, Ian Lance Taylor via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 9:08 AM Jeff Law via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > > once or twice when physical violence with threatened, but that's about > > it (aside from spammers). I don't think we want to get too deep into > > moderation and the like -- IMHO it should be an extremely rare event. > > As much as I disagree with some of the comments that have been made I > > don't think they've risen to the level of wanting/needing to ban those > > individuals from posting. > > I think it's useful to observe that there are a reasonable number of > people who will refuse to participate in a project in which the > mailing list has regular personal attacks and other kinds of abusive > behavior. I know this because I've spoken with such people myself. > They simply say "that project is not for me" and move on. >
As a single data point, I used to contribute somewhat to gcc (libstdc++ specifically) -- I did a bunch of work implementing bits of TR1 and C++03. I found the "GCC community" an unpleasant place to be (there were many nice individual nice people), and didn't enjoy being involved. I just moved on to work on several other, open-source non-GNU projects, which I have been happily contributing to for the last 10 years or so. Chris Jefferson
