Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

Hullo Mathieu!

Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> Following the announcement made by RMS regarding the new GNU 
> Kind
> Communication Guidelines (GKCG) [1], I would like to know if the 
> Guix
> developpers in particular its maintainers would agree to adopt 
> it in
> place of the current Code of Conduct (CoC)?

They seem reasonable (a tad reactionary, but hey, it's rms) but 
orthogonal to our CoC.

> 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].

I've (re-)read the links you've provided (thanks). I guess it's 
supposed to be obvious what you find disagreeable about them, but 
if one doesn't disagree, it's not that obvious. :-)

(TBH that's the only reason I replied at all: I'd like to learn 
more about the different perspectives on this issue. The 'debate' 
dividing other projects is entirely unenlightening and tedious. I 
hope we can do better.)

That said, I hope we can address any perceived lack of merit in 
(our copy of) the CoC without resorting to its original 
authors. The resulting irony blast would level multiple city 
blocks.

Kind regards,

T G-R

> [1] 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-10/msg00001.html
> [2] https://www.contributor-covenant.org/
> [3] https://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Meritocracy