Re: Contributor covenant

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hi,

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I don’t know about you, but I think this growing community here has
> always been very kind, welcoming, and helpful, IOW: awesome.

I could not agree more.

> In commit e15fcdd, I added a ‘CODE-OF-CONDUCT’ file taken from
> <http://contributor-covenant.org/>, which is essentially a way of
> telling the lurkers out there: yes, we do our best to be welcoming and
> we’re committed to doing so, so join us!  The address@hidden
> address it mentions is currently an alias for address@hidden (though I’d
> like it to become more than just me!).

Since Guix has (in my experience) always be a nice place, I don't think
this is necessary to have this.  As much goodwill is the intention of
this code of conduct, the ideas behind it don't make consensus in Free
Software communities which can lead into unnecessary divisions (and we
have already a lot of them).  See:

  http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918

The problem is that this code of conduct pretends to give a warranty of
an "harassment-free experience", which is is a slippery slope (Sorry to
not be able to expand more on it in english).  IMHO it would be
preferable to revert this commit, and let the necessary decisions be
taken case by case when a bad behavior among Guix contributors arise.

Thanks,

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Mathieu Lirzin