<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Matthew Brett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew.brett@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthew.brett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Ralf Gommers <<a href="mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com">ralf.gommers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Stefan van der Walt <<a href="mailto:stefanv@berkeley.edu">stefanv@berkeley.edu</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
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>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017, at 14:08, Pauli Virtanen wrote:<br>
>> > It can of course be useful to think about writing such things down<br>
>> > explicitly to produce a document explaining (1), and I think the Apache<br>
>> > one gives good hints for keeping things productive. But it is less<br>
>> > clear to me this is something for which formal moderator action would<br>
>> > be necessary.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > However, if I understand correctly, the reason why people want these<br>
>> > things is more about (2). Indeed, this is standard stuff in the<br>
>> > workplace and in moderation of internet forums (usually in "Rules" in<br>
>> > the latter).<br>
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> Agreed that many people want it for (2). There's an important difference<br>
> though. Forum rules and workplace policies are usually not very visible,<br>
> while with a CoC for an open source project one wants it to be quite<br>
> visible. Therefore the importance of it having a positive tone and<br>
> statements about what we value is a lot more important than for something<br>
> like a workplace policy.<br>
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</span>Yes - I agree strongly. I think this does do dual service as a<br>
statement of values as well as well as a threat of enforcement.<br>
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>> It seems a good idea to structure this part so that it<br>
>> > does not fail if someone acts in bad faith, and so that the moderation<br>
>> > plan is reasonable to the reader and possible to implement.<br>
>><br>
>> I feel it is important to mix in a bit of (1) with (2), the reason being<br>
>> that almost every person reading the CoC will not ever act in bad faith.<br>
>> You'd think that those people could simply ignore language related to<br>
>> enforcement, but in previous discussions (e.g., around the Jupyter CoC)<br>
>> that turned out not to be the case: it is all too easy to frighten<br>
>> people into not speaking up.<br>
>><br>
>> So, I'd recommend focusing on a description of the kind of community we<br>
>> want, instead of what we're trying to avoid; and postponing the<br>
>> enforcement language until later in the document, making it clear that<br>
>> enforcement only comes through (somewhat wide) deliberation of trusted<br>
>> community members (and, preferably, also after engagement with the<br>
>> offending party).<br>
>><br>
>> This way, we can hopefully instill trust in our CoC as a process, rather<br>
>> than a set of rules.<br>
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> That sounds quite good to me. The process at a high level (for all but the<br>
> most severe cases) should be something like:<br>
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> 1. complaint<br>
> 2. reasonable discussion/feedback<br>
> 3. mediation (if feedback didn't help)<br>
> 4. enforcement via transparent decision by CoC committee (if mediation<br>
> failed)<br>
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</span>Yes, I like that list a lot. Although, I was proposing in the Jupyter<br>
discussion, that informal mediation be triggered really early, to help<br>
people get over the feeling of being isolated, that can easily arise<br>
in on-line communication - see :<br>
<a href="https://github.com/jupyter/governance/pull/23#issuecomment-269352416" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/jupyter/<wbr>governance/pull/23#<wbr>issuecomment-269352416</a> .<br>
This was partly based on my reading of [1] (see quote), which<br>
suggested that one reason that women can find online forums<br>
intimidating is the lack of a mentor to guide them through the<br>
thickets of unfamiliar jargon, habits, and cliques. And partly<br>
because, having read that, I realized I felt the same way.<br>
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> And not what some people may be afraid of, and sometimes actually happens in<br>
> practice:<br>
> 1. complaint<br>
> 2. enforcement<br>
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> For a new CoC draft, taking most of the Apache doc and tacking the more<br>
> rules/enforcement oriented content of the Contributor Covenant onto the end<br>
> seems like a good starting point.<br>
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</span>Yes, I agree with that too ... :)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi all, here is a new version of the CoC taking this approach: <a href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7963">https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7963</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Please have a look and comment. Higher level discussion better on this list, detailed textual comments on the PR itself.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Ralf</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers,<br>
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Matthew<br>
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[1] <a href="https://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://suegardner.org/2011/<wbr>02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-<wbr>dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-<wbr>own-words</a><br>
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