Re: [RFC] [Draft] Adopt Code of Conduct

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Eli <eli@eliw.com> wrote: > On 1/4/16 4:45 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> Looks to me like solution in search of a problem. I'm with PHP project >> since 90s, and maybe it is my biased view > > As someone who originally was hesitant to do something similar with his > conferences. I can speak that the reason for such a proposal is not > "because we have a problem". > > It's a pro-active step, which makes it clear to people who are not a > part of our community at the moment, when they happen to approach our > community, and perhaps, are interested/intrigued about joining it. That > yes, it will be a safe environment for them to do so. > > Without such a statement. They would have no way to determine that, > other than reading 10 years worth of internals+reddit+etc. > > To that end, it's a great step, and I will +1 vote for it when it comes > up. Thanks for putting it forward Anthony. I fully agree here. To start to think about it or adopt one when a problem happens will be too late. The effort to create and adopt a CoC is minimal and the benefits are huge. It creates, confirms or ensure that the context of the php.net remains a safe for anyone to contribute. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org