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

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, François Laupretre wrote: > Le 05/01/2016 15:31, Peter Lind a écrit : > > > A quick question: suppose you're from a minority group, and you've been the > > target of abuse previously your life. You now join the PHP community and for > > whatever reason, someone takes a dislike to you and starts harassing you in > > private. The abuse makes use of the same stuff you've been through before, > > and because this is a real douchebag, some very humiliating things are > > thrown in for good measure. How exactly would you feel about having all of > > this made explicit to all the other PHP devs? Presumably you look up to some > > of these people - would your first thought be "Oh I know! I'll post all this > > nasty stuff to a public mailing list, that is archived on the web where > > EVERYONE can see all the humiliation coming my way - and where google is > > sure to pick up all these things about me!"? If you happen to belong to a > > minority group that often is at the receiving end of abuse, what would you > > think if this was the message being sent? Would you expect to be understood > > by your peers, or would their concern about being possibly accused of > > something seem like an out-of-hand rejection? Regards Peter > > You're probably right but that all sounds too 'american' to me. These > questions of 'minority group' refer to a multi-cultural situation that is > totally foreign to my culture. But I understand it may be an important concern > for others. It doesn't even have to be a minority group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4UWxlVvT1A > Anyway, I don't say that it cannot happen, I just say that, AFAIK, we > never got such concerns in the PHP community. Sorry - not true. I can name several issues from various PHP related conferences. Although not directly under the "control" of the PHP developers team (and hence not influenced by a proposed CoC), they're certainly part of the community. cheers, Derick