Hi everybody,
I am sure you will love that post. Here is what I know or what I think about COC:
It is totally useless in a world with real adults where everywhere respects each other. Unfortunately we don’t life in such a world, so we need published rules and make clear what are our values and how we expect that people behave. We are as the Joomla! community have a big part of native English speakers but we have even more people that are not so good in expressing there minds in english (me included). So I think it is important that our rules are easy to understand and further more short and sweet. Even native speaker haven’t so much fun to read 48 pages or maybe 8 pages of text. So what is the value in a large document with rules nobody reads? Nothing I would say but there might be a value, but a bad one, when people are using this document against someone else. I can bring any complain in a one page document against someone else if I like, easy task for a 8 pages document. More easier when we have 3 other documents that are related in some way, I still don’t know if they are part of the vote. (a bit bitching see footnote 1).
So I would like to suggest something that fits better in our community. I have seen it in a tweet today and I really like it. It is easy to understand, it is short and the best of all it follows something what is popular at the moment in development „invented somewhere else“. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel when we have 20 perfectly round wheels available.
I know a lot of people have spent time to work on the existing one. Tbh you wasted your time, I am so sorry.
So here is the like to the website:
http://contributor-covenant.org
and to the COC:
http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/2/0/
If people think this is a better way to go then I am happy to bring in a motion.
Cheers,
Robert
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1) Why we are voting when some says that all is useless because OSM is the thing that needs to vote. Isn’t there something wrong in our community when decisions or the ability to make decisions is restricted to a small part and members of THIS organisation don’t get tired to tell others they don’t count.