On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Brett Cannon brett@python.org wrote:
When I thought about this the other week after a cranky email to python-dev appeared I realized that the CoC isn't exactly advertised so that people know they shouldn't act mean here like they might in other corners of the internet where it's tolerated. I thought perhaps if we took this one time to make it officially in effect then it would remove at least one tiny barrier that might be holding up people from getting more involved. I certainly don't want any morality police, but I do want people to know that Python development is not one of the mean, cesspool corners of the internet either. And so I figured adding a link at the bottom of a couple of things would be a minor thing and a nice gesture to newcomers. I didn't mean for it to seem like a perpetual burden for anyone or a deterrent to contributing.
Perhaps it would be sufficient to reference the CoC on each list's page rather than in each email footer. Then it's not so in-your-face (not that I had visually noticed that it was already added on recently).
-eric