Quoting info at smallinnovations dot nl (i...@smallinnovations.nl): > CoCs are a fact of life in FOSS now and I'm for sure interested in > reasoning about pro and con CoC's.
I'm not a fan because IMO the matters they address can be addressed as well or better without them. In my experience, literally nothing that gets done in their name requires them. Also, they are as a general class purposefully vague so that they end up meaning anything or nothing, just ritual clothing. How open source software projects are governed differs a bit (e.g., the much-studied Apache Foundation model being an outlier from most), but in general there are a group of primary active project managers fully empowered to act for the project's benefit. I have yet to see a case of such a project's representatives sanctioning problem conduct that couldn't simply have been carried out without a manifesto to justify it, establishing by example -- the only meaningful evidence, in the end -- that bad conduct will be swiftly curtailed. It would IMO be refreshing to see that done, _actually_ done, and vague policy handwaves kept to the bare minimum as rarely useful. My surmise is that adopting projects are attempting to hack human psychology and sociology, unfortunately forgetting that they're notoriously terrible (as a general rule) at so doing. On the bright side, being purposefully vague to the point of tending to mean anything or nothing, in my experience they work out to be functionally harmless over the long term, once projects get used to them, because the project leaders eventually remember that their role is to act in whatever way is best for the project as they see it, and they retroactively construe the CoC wording to justify whatever they would have done without the CoC. In effect, they turn into ritual clothing, and the reality behind them is that the project leaders make decisions and quote CoC catechism. So, they end up being a kind of windy NO-OP. (As any relevance to Devuan Project is minuscule, I will leave it at that.) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
