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

[<Tim.Bird@sony.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown
> 
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:19:51AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Wed 26-09-18 09:54:00, Jani Nikula wrote:
> 
> > > This may well be the biggest reason the "code of conlict" did not
> > > succeed, despite the large number of acks.
> 
> > One thing I'm missing: Did "code of conflict" really fail? I find the areas
> > which I follow (filesystems and surroundings) pretty civil but so they were
> > even before "code of conflict"... So maybe I miss some events?
> 
> There's a few things there.  One is that the name doesn't really convey
> the idea that this is a particularly serious document, and the content
> of the document doesn't do a lot of things that are considered good
> practices for codes of conduct.  A big part of the goal with codes of
> conduct is to send a signal to people outside the community that these
> issues are taken seriously and that they will get backup if there's a
> problem and this stuff meant that it didn't really have those effects,
> people externally didn't take it seriously.

+1
That's why using a "standard" CoC (even as just for a base) has value.
I've heard Greg KH say that people didn't read the Code of Conflict carefully,
and misinterpreted it as encouraging conflict.