Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
by favorited on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:08PM
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> Can anyone point me to one ore more projects where CoCs have actually improved open source/free software projects or communities
For the record, the purpose of a project adopting a CoC isn't always to improve something, but can be to codify existing (but unwritten) community guidelines.
The LLVM project talked a lot about this when discussing adopting a CoC. They weren't necessarily doing it to change anything – but they wanted to have a written set of the community guidelines that they were already following.
There is a benefit in having such policies available in a form where people can reference it, and not have that institutional knowledge of community policies exist only in lots of people's heads.
Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
by WalterGR on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:13PM
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Over the years I've heard a number of times where a CoC has been used to make a lot of trouble in projects that where originally more or less healthy.
Examples?
Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
by s73v3r_ on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:37PM
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Offhand, I can think of maybe a handful of instances where trouble was made by applying the CoC to someone's behavior, either rightly or wrongly. To me, it's seemed that the "trouble" that comes is when a project decides to adopt a CoC, and several members protest agains the idea of having one.
I'll not argue over why they came into existence as the idea seems good enough (and if you'd asked me a few years ago I'd even said it was a good idea), but now I'll ask:
Over the years I've heard a number of times where a CoC has been used to make a lot of trouble in projects that where originally more or less healthy.
I read my it and open source news from Ars Technica, HN and from time to time Slashdot though, so I might be heavily biased.
Can anyone point me to one ore more projects where CoCs have actually improved open source/free software projects or communities?
As I already mentioned I guess originally I would have thought it was a good idea, but over the last few years I've heard either nothing or problems from projects that adopted a CoC.