On Thursday 17 January 2008 22:31:29 Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
Dear lovers of green, swift-tongued reptiles,
On behalf of the openSUSE Board, I would like to propose the adoption of a Code of Conduct for openSUSE.
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While this a very good summary of how people should behave toward each other, it's not really easy to find these guidelines as a newcomer.
Because it's the bad RTFM again? :-)
There is a lot of abuse in places like IRC channels and mailing lists (notably the opensuse@ mailing list), and we would like to propose a simple, clear Code of Conduct to start fixing this problem.
I'm not sure this will help, but go ahead. I agree with Steve: put it into the Guiding Principles, so we have _one_ document to sign/follow/respect/whatever. I have no problem to make a subpage in the wiki with only these "rules", but not splitted from the GP. Even a page with the original part you posted with more explanation what this means is fine with me. I also agree with Martin's response: this is only one side of the problem. If you stay longer in the channel you will see that sometimes it's not that easy to stay calm. I can, most of the times, but i can understand others who can't. The kind of reaction is sometimes not appropriate, but thats how people tick - different. If you think that someone don't behave correctly, talk with them directly without having the "rules" in mind. I guess "these" people know the rules, like everybody have an idea how to behave, they just don't care that much. And no, i have no idea what to do if this is not working ... -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch@suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org