On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Paul M. Jones <pmjone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Jan 4, 2016, at 21:22, Bishop Bettini <bis...@php.net> wrote: > > > > Every long standing collaborative system adopts, uses, and sheds rules > of conduct to suit its real and perceived challenges. > > Including the one headed by Linus Torvalds, right? (/me rolls eyes) > Yes, even there. The system *adopted* Linus as its benevolent dictator and it *continues to use* that model. At some point, those rules *will end*. As far as I know, PHP has no formal governance document, but operates informally like a meritocratic cathedral <http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/governancemodels>. Anthony's CoC addresses one component of such a document, and in my opinion it's good for us to formalize that. (See also the PR triage RFC <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/github-pr>, which discusses how external contributions will be handled.)
