From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Griffin Subject: Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines? Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:37:32 -0500 Message-ID: <1540593452.395052.1556179352.51508E84@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <87k1m852yc.fsf@gnu.org> <20181024010640.GA14776@antares.lan> <87y3an8xxe.fsf@gnu.org> <20181024142115.GA2088@antares.lan> <20181026233648.0fd1ea35@merlin.browniehive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGAjb-0003lV-LZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:37:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGAjX-0006Pb-4i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:37:39 -0400 Received: from wout1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.24]:50495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGAjW-0006PP-QZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:37:35 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3B5E60 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:37:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20181026233648.0fd1ea35@merlin.browniehive.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org > An interesting element here is that many of the > harrassers don't seem to understand that they are harrassing. I'm so glad you brought this up, because it seems equally plausible to me that the other party could be reacting overly sensitively. This is precisely why it is a bad idea to set up an authority for people to appeal to. In many cases it's not clear which party is the unreasonable one, and it must be worked through with dialogue. If people don't have to work things out among themselves, and disputes are instead handled by a committee of project maintainers, contributors lose the opportunity to better understand each other. Oh, and that committee of maintainers have all agreed according to the Contributor Covenant that they have a responsibility to punish abusers, so they might find it difficult to avoid being biased towards punishing the accused. Software projects should focus on software. They are not equipped to administer justice. -- Alex Griffin