My point was that this community, as a the big majority of FLOSS ones, is not a democracy and *not* having a democracy has shown its benefits in human endeavors like science, technology, hackerspaces and so on.
I'll keep the rest of the conversation with you on the source code repository and the PR. See you there. On 22/09/19 6:40 p. m., Steve Quezadas wrote: > This isn't science, this is a community. We don't need a CoC, there > haven't been any problems on this list regarding nazis or whatever. > This is just a group of people trying to enforce their political > ideologies on everyone else. Let's just remove the CoC altogether and > just replace it with one line: "this maillist is about Pharo, anything > else is offtopic". > > If you want to debate on the merits of Islam vs Christianity/ right vs > left / thugs vs racists , you are free to hold your opinion on some > other sub, but it's offtopic here. > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 4:23 PM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas > <offray.l...@mutabit.com <mailto:offray.l...@mutabit.com>> wrote: > > There is no data to support such supposed majority. But even so, > free, libre, open source communities are not democracies. Imagine > the quality of code or argumentation based on perceived > majorities? If science would be a democracy, the earth would be > "still" flat. > > On 22/09/19 6:04 p. m., Steve Quezadas wrote: >> I would say that the majority don't seem to be in favor of it. >> This should be a democracy. >> >> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 1:53 PM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas >> <offray.l...@mutabit.com <mailto:offray.l...@mutabit.com>> wrote: >> >> >> On 22/09/19 3:38 p. m., Steve Quezadas wrote: >> > > The discussion so far shows that CoC is not a distraction >> to many >> > >> > Actually, the discussion shows that the CoC is "a >> distraction to many". >> >> Actually it shows that some people consider it a distraction, >> others >> don't. I think that every body here is able to form its own >> opinion on >> that and invest time and effort accordingly. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Offray >> >> >>
