[Development] Code of conduct.

[Rohan McGovern]

Alexis Menard said:
> Hi,
> 
> When I see recent behaviors, wording, comments on various mailing
> lists, blog posts, or IRC against major contributors or regular
> contributor I feel sad about it. I feel sad to hear bashing, complains
> in a way they should not be said, i.e. impolite, arrogant, aggressive.
> While I do understand people have strong opinion about feature A
> against feature B, QML vs C++, whatever against whatever, it is not a
> reason to not behave like educated person. I find it very demotivating
> especially when we all need to act as strong community to make Qt an
> even better framework.
> 
> We don't all like each others but that is fine. But we are not forced
> to accept people polluting the environment, the professionalism on the
> project especially when it starts hurting motivation of people
> *actually* contributing to the project. These people are not welcomed.
> 
> Should we have a code of conduct just like KDE or Gnome to specify
> what we expect from community members in term of behavior between each
> other? If people don't agree with this code of conduct then they
> should not participate to the project. It's not a law neither a
> removing liberty to people to raise their concerns, it just a way to
> make sure people will do it in a nice manner and if they don't they
> can just leave.
> 

When I read your mail, I tried to think which recent incidents you were
referring to.  I could only think of cases where non-contributors have
been disrespectful of contributors.  As far as I can tell, Qt Project
contributors' interaction with each other is not a problem.

Having a code of conduct may anyway be a good thing, but I
don't think it would have made a difference to the behavior from
non-contributors I think you're referring to in your mail.
No matter what you do, jerks will be jerks....