Proposed RTEMS Community Code of Conduct

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Ralf Corsepius
<ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:
> On 11/10/2014 06:11 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>> While at the GSOC Mentor Summit, I heard a story from another
>> organization about some inappropriate behavior by someone.
>> They were fairly easily able to deal with this because their
>> organization had an agreed upon Community Code of Conduct (CCoC).
>> This provides guidelines on expected behavior as well as what
>> will occur if these are violated.
>
>
> As you may know, I am opposed to any such Code of Conducts, as well as I do
> not see any need for the RTEMS list to implement one.
>
>
> Why?
>
> a) The issues you mention have never been a problem to the RTEMS list.
> That said I feel you trying to implement problems to a current non-issue.
>
It is better to be prepared and to make the community's intentions obvious.

> b) I for one consider "Code of Conducts" to an ongoing fashion/hype, which
> as I feel probably, originates from certain tendencies in US-society.
>
This comment is a violation of our community code of conduct. Please
try to be more respectful of cultures other than your own.

> c) I have seen many occassions, where "Code of Conducts" have been applied
> as a means of censorship to silence and suppress oppositions in case of
> disagreement or dispute.
>
Our code of conduct intends to suppress aggressive behavior.
Disagreement is expected in the nature of open-source development, but
any disputes should be civil, as outlined in the document.

> d) Some of these project who are proud to have implemented a "Code of
> Conduct" wonder about loosing users. Why? cf. c)
>
The problem of a user or developer feeling repressed by our code of
conduct must be addressed if it arises. However, if an individual is
repressed simply by the fact we have a code of conduct, I question the
value of that individual as a member of an open and tolerant
community.

Gedare

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