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> This has been particularly evident in volunteer-based open source communities, where the need to formalize governance through codes of conduct has met with fr
by da39a3ee 5y ago
> This has been particularly evident in volunteer-based open source communities, where the need to formalize governance through codes of conduct has met with frequent resistance among people who resent the imposition of rules on a sphere where they previously acted without constraint.
No, I resist it because it is not necessary: we can rely on human decency in open source without policing people with formal documents.
- mcphage 5y ago> we can rely on human decency in open source without policing people with formal documents I don't think that's true at all—neither on sexual subjects, nor on non-sexual subjects. Witness: the left pad debacle, Minecraft Forge, whatever is going on with Freenode, etc.
- da39a3ee 5y agoI guess I just mean that my open source projects will never have a "code of conduct". Clearly in the political climate that has obtained in recent years among educated sectors of western societies a lot of this stuff has been exaggerated.
- mcphage 5y agoThat seems to be about as good an idea as skipping a license, but you do you.
- lamontcg 5y ago> we can rely on human decency... you've got a bug here.