On 15 November 2014 16:44, Anne Schilling <a...@math.ucdavis.edu> wrote: >> > Code of Conduct > > Thanks for the links to the guidelines. It is interesting to see how other > communities handle this. > Dave's question was how situations will be handled when a violation occurs or > that are reported. > Does your community have experience with this? > > Best, > > Anne
Unless there is another Dave, my question is not what you describe Anne. We were asked to vote whether this code of conduct should be introduced, yet it seems illogical to vote when the makeup of the administrators and those reading sage-abuse are not stated. Things that come to mind are: 1) Are the administrators and readers of sage-abuse going to be professionally trained to handle such situations? 2) Is it going to be a sub-set of sage developers, and if so who chooses them? I think there is probably a closer relationship between the members of sage-devel than on many open-source projects. Many on sage-devel are students of others of sage-devel. Many have junior roles in universities where others have more senior roles in the same department. I doubt that situation is as common on other projects, so I believe care would be needed in making comparisons with the usefulness of similar "codes of conduct" on other open-source communities. Without knowing the makeup of those lists, and how they are chosen, in *my* opinion it is not possible to make an informed judgement about the proposal. Since opinions on this proposal are quite split, and those that have them quite vocal on it, I do wonder if the introduction of such a code of conduct might actually cause a bigger split. It may be a case of the medicine is worse than the symptoms. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
