[Development] QUIP 12: Code of Conduct

[Ulf Hermann]

On 10/25/18 1:19 AM, Konstantin Shegunov wrote:
> I  think you're over-engineering the whole thing and you don't drive the 
> point of such a document home. My best suggestion is to simplify 
> (heavily) the process and the phrasing.

The CoC is not only a guide on how to behave, but also a "welcome" 
message to new contributors. Therefore, there may be slightly redundant 
language in there which specifically addresses people currently 
under-represented in the Qt community.

> Secondly, that whole committee thing is somewhat of a stretch in my 
> mind. It's going to be much more practical to have one contact person to 
> "shuffle the paper" and consider complaints/issues, answering questions 
> about and for the community, helping newer persons to get on with the 
> program and so on. Election can be by majority voting ran for a 
> reasonable time period (say 1 week) from a pool of proposed candidates. 
> Alternatively, as the community is somewhat dispersed over different 
> media - forums, mailing lists, IRC and so on a person for each of the 
> channels mentioned can be elected. On that note the proposed CoC doesn't 
> take into account that specific, for one we mostly police ourselves in 
> the forum, and I imagine people have an operator on IRC, but it's not 
> clear how the committee is supposed to operate on the differen > channels, are they to be omnipresent?

Phrasing this proposal in a water-proof way would require more wording 
and a much more complicated process than the current proposal. The CoC 
has to withstand conflict, and in a conflict each party will try to find 
loop holes.

> Thirdly, and I'll stop with my ramblings, there will always be grating 
> between people that work on something together for extended periods, no 
> matter if it's a huge C++ library or some triviality. If you try to stop 
> all of it, what my feeling of the proposed document is, brace 
> yourselves, you're going to fail miserably. I'd rather suggest handling 
> the extreme cases only and leave people blow off steam once in a while. 
> Disruptions to good order are more often than not correctable by a 
> simple private notice. 

The Committee has the option of only handing out "a private reprimand" 
in case of minor misconduct. See section "Resolutions".

Ulf