From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Griffin Subject: Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines? Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:06:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20181024010640.GA14776@antares.lan> References: <87k1m852yc.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gF7dK-00009b-8i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:06:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gF7dE-0002KM-VO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:06:50 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:34283) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gF7dE-0002IG-Fw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:06:44 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7675121BBE for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:06:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (174-20-176-245.mpls.qwest.net [174.20.176.245]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C8672E49C5 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:06:41 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k1m852yc.fsf@gnu.org> 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 On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 01:15:23PM +0200, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > Adopting the GKCG instead of a CoC would help attracting people (like > me) who agree to use a welcoming and respectful language which > encourages everyone to contribute but are reluctant in contributing to > any project following a CoC due to its punitive nature and the politics > of its authors [2][3]. FWIW once I noticed that Guix had adopted the Contributor Covenant, it factored strongly into my decision to stop contributing to the project last year. I can't say for sure that I would contribute again if the CoC were gone, but I would very much welcome this change. -- Alex Griffin