[Development] QUIP 12: Code of Conduct

[Shawn Rutledge]

> On 24 Oct 2018, at 17:09, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> In case it needs to be said-
> I am AGAINST racism, sexism, bigotry, and all the other exclusionary things. But I am also against people judging other people's code for factors that have nothing to do with the code itself. I find that adding a value judgement of conduct to code to be intolerant. We had the ideal.
> I am FOR inclusion. I want everyone to feel welcome here. Everyone. 

I agree.  It seems to be about fixing something that isn’t broken, or as in that story in the Bible where the people came to a consensus that every other country around them had a king, so they should have a king too.  Nothing good came out of it in any cases where we have seen this kind of illogic applied.  “Most other big corporations have a deep hierarchy of management, with too much power concentrated at the top, and we want to be a big corporation, so we need to replicate that.”  “The other lemmings are running away so maybe we’d better follow.”  It’s not the open source way, which seemed to be working well enough already.

If you give power to a committee of 3 people, they will probably abuse it eventually, misjudge, cause bitterness, create factions, and some developers will end up walking away.  Seems predictable, doesn’t it?