[Development] QUIP 12: Code of Conduct

[Martin Smith]

>1) To contact the contributor first and try to resolve the issue civilly.
>2) To seek help with a third party (another contributor) who is known to the
>alleged victim and who can act as mediator to try an resolve it.
>3) If 1) and 2) don't work he/she may also bring it to the attention of the
>community (e.g. the mailing list). The community is then free to react or not to
>react.

You just specified a code of conduct. The problem with your code of conduct is that it isn't guaranteed to end in resolution.

>The implication that currently, if you're feeling mistreated, it's impossible to act
>(respectfully) against harassment seems rather far-fetched to me.

But that isn't the implication. The implication is that a mistreated person can take the actions you have specified, and the result can be that the mistreatment, real or not, is not resolved.

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From: Konstantin Shegunov <kshegunov at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:48:49 PM
To: Martin Smith
Cc: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] QUIP 12: Code of Conduct

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:09 PM Martin Smith <Martin.Smith at qt.io<mailto:Martin.Smith at qt.io>> wrote:
In that case, if a contributor is mistreated by another contributor, what recourse does the victim have?

1) To contact the contributor first and try to resolve the issue civilly.
2) To seek help with a third party (another contributor) who is known to the alleged victim and who can act as mediator to try an resolve it.
3) If 1) and 2) don't work he/she may also bring it to the attention of the community (e.g. the mailing list). The community is then free to react or not to react.

The implication that currently, if you're feeling mistreated, it's impossible to act (respectfully) against harassment seems rather far-fetched to me.