Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

[Alex Griffin]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, at 7:33 AM, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> I proposed to try to roll our own, essentially based on GKCG,
> but have the acceptable behaviour and the processes defined.
> 
> Do you think this can/should be done?
> Do you think that this could result in a better situation overall?

It's tough work to get everything right in a CoC. I think that's probably why 
the Contributor Covenant was chosen in the first place, but IMO it was a bad 
choice.

The GKCG is slightly less polished, and only preferable because it does NOT 
specify processes (making it less important to agree with every word). The 
processes are where the whole controversy is; nobody objects to behaving 
compassionately.

If you must spell out consequences for bad behavior, the Debian Code of Conduct 
is impeccable, I suggest starting with that. Despite the fact that I dislike 
codes of conduct in principle, I couldn't find a single thing wrong with it.

-- 
Alex Griffin