Re: [RFC] [Re-proposed] Adopt Code of Conduct

Hi, On 21 January 2016 at 04:37, Kevin Smith <kevin@gohearsay.com> wrote: > I noticed you were contacted by Randi Lee Harper [https://archive.is/b8RDW], the ironically > abusive founder of the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative > [https://archive.is/eqco9][http://archive.is/A1Azz] known for attacking and attempting to eject from > projects/employment people she associates with groups she doesn’t approve of > [http://archive.is/1A8SQ], wherein she suggested that you ignore the Code of Merit that Pavel > recommended for consideration because she associates the author of said code with a group > that—though entirely unrelated to his Open Source contributions—she finds undesirable and then > proceeded to make general derogatory comments about him [again, > https://archive.is/b8RDW]. Are you here to debate the proposed COC, or to mount personal attacks on someone outside of the PHP community? > (My deepest apologies for such a tremendous run-on sentence.) > > I certainly hope this isn’t indicative of the spirit of this proposal. This exchange really > seems to suggest the goal of these codes in general, and now possibly this one in particular, is > what so many of us have feared: to exclude people with wrong ideas and associations, as defined by > the in-group. Is that what the RFC actually states though? As it's a code of conduct, it's directed at specific actions not whatever is running through your, or my, head. Paddy