Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH-TOPIC] Review - Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 02:11:39PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Some number of folks feel (at least indirectly) chided or silenced by
> the new Code of Conduct.

Such folks would do well to consider what *actual* behavior they're
engaged in would be affected, and how that behavior affects others.

> It seems likely to me that these folks are at least as likely to
> quit the community over their hurt feelings as have been the victims
> of Linus or any other grumpy maintainers.

I rather expect the number willing to complain to be quite different
from the number willing to leave rather than treat others decently. I'd
expect the latter to be vanishingly small. And ultimately, that's the
tradeoff here. You can't accommodate people who want to be treated
decently and people who refuse to treat others decently in the same
community. (You *can*, however, accommodate folks who grumble about
being required to treat others decently but nonetheless do so anyway.)

> If we really care about maximizing the pool of contributors, we need
> to accomodate even those that aren't particularly comfortable with
> 'playing nice'.

We really don't, any more than we need to accommodate those who insist
on not following the kernel coding style, or any other norm of the
kernel community. It doesn't have to be their *preferred* mode of
operation, just the one they use when interacting with the kernel
community.