tis 2018-05-15 klockan 09:10 -0400 skrev Devin Heitmueller: > > 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).
Yeah, this is why I suggested Mumble. Physical meetings can be hard to arrange more than once or twice per year, but telephony is always possible. > 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... Yep. Especially when folks come from cultures that seem rude to outside observers. Torvalds comes to mind. /Tomas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
