Hello Debian Women I wasn't quite sure about the correct list / people to bring up my small concern about current Debian's inter-personal relationships.
There are a few under-age (18 / 21 depends where you are) who are possibly want to develop Debian [1]. In addition there are various adult people with various moral and ethical standards (What's acceptable for some might not be for the others). In the past months I've started to contribute to Debian & Ubuntu and I've started to be a bit concerned by some of the behavior and etiquette on the mailing list. For example most are for plain-txt emails, bottom-posting and etc. and politely point people to not do that, while at the same time language at times is heated, rude and offensive (well to me sometimes) especially in the threads that just won't die. Sometimes when I read some of the posts (debian-devel, debian-legal, rants between mentors on debian-mentors a couple of bug reports) it seems to me that some parent might be concerned what their children are "developing" with that sort of people. The debian social contract is such concise and beautiful statement which sets an amazing spirit in Debian, unfortunately it does not set the tone. I would love to see friendly, safe and respectful behavior towards each other on mailing lists & other communication channel's within debian. I don't know but maybe a code of conduct (e.g. [2]) is something appropriate to be popularized in Debian? What are your thought on this topic? Am I talking non-sense or is debian development "not children save"? [1] for example there is this kid who develops Zope, has commit access and got sponsored by Google to go to Zope conf (or however it is called) and he gave 2 or 3 presentations. [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
