Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CoC: spell out enforcement for unacceptable behaviors

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 11/12/24 07:43, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> On 11/11/24 13:07, Simona Vetter wrote:
> 
>>> Personal take, but I think a forced public apology as the primary or at
>>> least initial coc enforcement approach is one of the worst.
> 
> ...
> 
>> This document isn't intended to be a complete summary of all actions the
>> CoC takes in response to reports. There is a lot of back and forth with
>> the individuals to bring about change before the CoC asks for an apology.
> 
> I guess it would be good to explicitly call out (possibly in an
> incremental change on top of this one) that the specific enforcement
> steps here are examples, and are mainly for cases where a more
> mediation/education based approach fails or extreme cases where they're
> inappropriate?  Neither the existing document nor the current change
> make that explicit (at least to my reading), it's clear from for example
> the reports that are sent that the existing practice is to try to use
> those approaches first but I'm not sure that people would realise that
> from this document alone.

Thank you Mark. I will add more content to the document distilling the
discussion on this thread in the interest of transparency.

thanks,
-- Shuah