Another remark:
Mike Solomon <m...@meeshkan.com> writes: > At the Salzburg meetup, one common thing a lot of people brought up > was a slow-down in development and a shrinking pool of contributors. > IMO we should do several experiments to fix this. The CoC I proposed > is used in over 40,000 projects including many of the most active and > diverse open source projects on github, so it seems like a reasonable > experiment. I think that may be confusing cause and effect. I consider it more likely that people saw a necessity of formalising relations and communication _because_ they were amongst the most active and diverse groups than the other way round. > If it proves to be a dud, we can get rid of it. I'd prefer to do it the other way round: if we can to a reasonable degree agree that our communication has become a dud, that may be incentive to get a hold of it. Independent of promising corrective measures, I would not object to quoting the GNU kind communication guidelines on our web pages and asking contributors to give them a good thought. Quoting relevant parts where people's communication are in obvious need of improvement are also appropriate. What I find less effective is just name-dropping of either CoC or the GNU guidelines without referencing a particular passage. Probably more so with the latter since they do not contain an inherent threat. -- David Kastrup
