Re: Patch submission should not imply agreement to policy (was Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?)

[Thorsten Wilms]

On 31/10/2018 09.58, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
> Out of curiosity, would you personally feel better about the CoC if it
> used terms such as "This community commits to" or "This community
> pledges to" insteead of "We as contributors commit to"?

In as far as contributing doesn't make one part of the community ... it 
would be a slight improvement. On the other hand, it's just vaguer about 
whom it puts words into their mouths.


> I ask because one of the positives about the CC wording from my
> perspective is that it specifically makes it a collective responsibility
> to uphold certain norms, and not just the responsibility of the
> "projec authorities".  It is understood that there are specific channels
> for dealing with violations of those norms, but the community as a whole
> stands behind that.

Yeah, that's the positive reading. A negative is that it is an attempt 
to push people to declare a mixed bag as their own, with no voice in the 
process (other than take it or leave it). One that contains 
hard-to-argue-with aspects, but also questionable and vague parts.


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