[ruby-core:73107] Re: [Ruby trunk - Misc #12004] Code of Conduct

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:26 AM, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Issue #12004 has been updated by Chuck Remes.
>


> I am not in favor of the adoption of a CoC.
>
> If this solved a real problem, I would consider it as would any reasonable
> person. However, no one in this thread has been able to point to any
> situations where a CoC (and specifically, *this* CoC) would have solved the
> problem. Instead they say that we can't know if there are problems because
> those marginalized people have avoided the community. Their claim is not
> falsifiable. To me that makes the claim absolutely worthless.
>

The counter-claim is also not falsifiable (which essentially is that
“because no one has claimed that this is a problem, it isn’t a problem”).
I’m a software development manager in my day job now. I have to work *very
hard* to make sure that every single one of my developers is heard because
they aren’t all bold and outspoken. It’s often a subtle thing, but the
effort *is* *real*.

I agree with you about *this* CoC for Ruby, because there are organizations
behind Ruby. Ruby itself should not have a CoC that applies to the repo
(such as the Contributor Covenant or the “Code of Merit” nonsense that some
folks are proposing in its stead), but something that is a bit broader and
written with knowledge that Matz is essentially a benevolent dictator for
this community.

-a
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