> I'm leaning toward 2, but there would need to be some other way to deal > with people not getting along. Maybe Mumble conferences where the > involved parties get to air their feelings on whatever is at issue? I > dunno
I'm not weighing in on the CoC so much as offering my experience with other open source projects. I will say that getting the developers in a room face-to-face can be a *huge* help to improving relationships. It's so easy to say mean spirited things over email that you would never say to a person sitting in front of you and, as Tomas suggested, nuances like sarcasm are very easy to misinterpret (creating bad blood to people who otherwise wouldn't have a conflict). Speaking from personal experience, I've had developers who I had a poor working relationship over email, and things significantly improved after meeting up over dinner/drinks. It really reinforces that these people you are dealing with over email are real human beings (something that I think everyone needs to be reminded of once in a while). Of course there have been a few cases where when meeting a developer in person I had the realization that "wow, this person really is a jerk and it's not just a language barrier or poor email etiquette", but at least then you know for sure... Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
