Hi! > This is a question I'm wondering about as well. It all seems pretty > good, but I wonder if, for example, the lists of unwelcome behaviour and > discrimination characteristics are sufficiently complete.
They are not supposed to be complete. Again, we're not writing a penal code. If somebody does something clearly destructive but not in the laundry list, we'd have to deal with it and we'll find the way to. The list is just to show what kind of behavior we see as unacceptable, not to provide complete list with a presumption if it's not on the list, it must be OK. For "discrimination characteristics" it's even worse, as we'd be pretending to have a complete list of human identity and background groups, which we can not have, and each failure mode for it is worse than the other - either we presume anything we omitted does not exist, or is not important enough, or it's OK to discriminate against members of that group. Also, nobody ever reads these lists anyway - checking everything against the exact list of a dozen or so items is not a common behavior, considerate person would behave in a way to be polite to everybody without the list, and inconsiderate person would ignore it anyway. I think simple "we respect everybody regardless of personal and group identity" would be enough. Just as when we say we'd be polite we do not list offensive words we don't use, when we say we'd be fair we shouldn't list ways in which we won't be unfair. And even if we do give examples, we should not pretend to have "complete" list. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
