[Development] Code of conduct.

[Alexis Menard]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:53 AM,  <marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com> wrote:
> Right. I must admit i can't see which specific incident which triggered this thread now, i believe the community has behaved good lately. But i agree that a general code of conduct for all our forums (mails, IRC, reviews, bugreports, etc)

I hate to point fingers but reading this made me sad :

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/06/18/qt-5-accessibility-apis/#comments

>
> So, let's grab one of the existing CoC for KDE, Linux.Conf and/or others, take the best of them and make it our own.
>
> Anyone feel like taking the lead on that, and drive the discussions until a conclusion?
>
> --
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>
> On 6/22/12 1:16 ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On sexta-feira, 22 de junho de 2012 08.47.34, Rohan McGovern wrote:
>> 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....
>
> That is true, but like you said it's a good thing. It's something we can point
> to when things start to get heated, even to non-contributors. And if we do
> need to take action, like moderating or banning someone from a mailing list,
> we can point to it and say it was not an arbitrary decision.
>
> I'd like to think that common sense should be enough to guide our conduct, but
> experience shows that common sense is not that common. And as the community
> grows, we might get more and more people with different cultures, different
> viewpoints and who might inadvertently step on other people's toes.
>
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Alexis Menard (darktears)
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