Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 01:44:37PM -0500, Regina Obe wrote:
> 1) Are helpful when I ask a question
> 2) Stick to the topic
> 3) Don't get into petty etiquettes like "Please stop top posting"
> and if you really need to - A polite we prefer top posting would do
>
> 4) Are sensitive to people on other operating systems other than your
> preferred.

That seems like a pretty good scratch CoC to me. (See my other note
about how other communities deal with this.) It's concrete, short, to
the point, and a useful thing to point to when some flamewar breaks
out over irrelevant stuff. If people want a CoC, I think it should be
something like the above.

> My other concern about CoCs is I fear someone is going to come and demand
> we change Master/Slave to Leader/Follower, because Master is a male term
> and Slave is insensitive to grand-children of slaves.

If someone did that, it would fall under (2), no? (I note that a
recent RFC, of which I am a co-author, about DNS terminology did say
that "primary" and "secondary" were to be preferred over "master" and
"slave". I didn't personally agree with the claim, but that's what
got consensus.)

Best regards,

A

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