Conduct is about behaviour and social interaction. A CoC is about the emotional contents and effects of the message not about how it was delivered or how many bytes there were between newline characters.
To me the strength of the CoC draft we are looking at here is that it doesn't concern itself with trivialities or with specific media. It talks about conduct -- that is behaviour, deportment, how we want people interact as human beings -- be respectful, be collaborative, assume good faith, be concise, be open. These are all about social interactions and not technical details on character limits, attachment sizes or whether people get CCs on messages. None of these technical things are conduct, they are, if you like, protocol. The CoC could happily refer to medium-specific guidelines for such minutiae if they are necessary. Let's not spend the next decade working to flesh out a 200pp document full of subsections for each different communications protocol we might use. Such a document becomes useless to everyone. Let's not overcomplicate this with rules-lawyering. cheers Stuart (who is pleased he refrained from adding a car analogy in here) -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lenbrs$rib$1...@ger.gmane.org
