On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:42:47PM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > 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.
I am astounded by the slenderness of the delta between what Stuart says above and the thoughts in my head I have been trying to extract and express without success. In other words, "me too", "+1", and "hear hear". -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- 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/20140227134526.ga16...@mavolio.codethink.co.uk
