Hi! > perspective. The absolute best we can do is just that - the absolute > best. And it's entirely responsible to ensure that it IS the absolute > best that can be achieved.
I think this is an incorrect approach - both in making software and other places. You don't release software when it's absolute best it could ever be - otherwise PHP would never exist and neither would 99.9999% of other software. You do it when it is good to solve practical problem you have. This is why there's a request on identifying the problem we're trying to solve and result we are trying to achieve. Because that's the way to know when we're good enough. Another reason is a dangerous illusion we could predict what people would do with it years from now. We can't. Thus it is important not over-specify things - because we don't have enough information now to know what we'd like to do in specific case in the future. > day. To state an obvious question - what precisely is the status quo > in comparison to a COC? Ad-hoc bans by whoever has access to the ML? Yes, status quo is pretty much that. IIRC we needed it one, two times over 20 years? And it worked fine then. Now, maybe it's time to improve on it, but the data so far does not show we're in failure mode. So I find a hard focus on bans be a bit strange - for something that we'd use maybe once per 10 years, it gets a lot of time spent on it. > Do people object to Twitter's policies? Reddit's? Facebook's? That Of course, all the time in fact. I'm reading allegations of Facebook both not doing enough and over-doing it, for various dark reasons, almost daily, and same for other social platforms. Every site with petitions (except maybe White House one, but even that I'm not sure) has petitions for Facebook to change their policies for this or that. > cardbox box and a security escort to the exit? What about the rules at > the local pub on behaviour? I have never seen a pub with a formal CoC so far, but maybe they have them now, I never asked. But pubs have owners, so it's not the same as here. > And yet...they clearly do. Of course. And most social platforms you mentioned also both horrible for cooperation and teeming with harassment. So I wouldn't take them as a positive example just yet. > In the extreme cases which should be very rare where mediation > completely fails :P. Almost none of them though ever practiced mediation and such - it's not scalable and they are all about scale. Thankfully, this is not our case. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
