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GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
Lest you think this is yet another CoC, the guidelines assure you that they are not a CoC.
Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
The GNU Kind Communication Guidelines, initial version, have been published in https://gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html. On behalf of the GNU Project, I ask all GNU contributors to make their best efforts to follow these guidelines in GNU Project discuaaions[sic].
[ . . . ] The difference between kind communication guidelines and a code of conduct is a matter of the basic overall approach.
A code of conduct states rules, with punishments for anyone that violates them.
[...] The idea of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines is to start guiding people towards kinder communication at a point well before one would even think of saying, "You are breaking the rules." The way we do this, rather than ordering people to be kind or else, is try to help people learn to make their communication more kind.
[ . . . . ] I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action
The best way to avoid conflict and encourage diversity is to force everyone to voluntarily think alike.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @11:06PM
Diversity should not be an only goal, that's for sure. More, diversity in the utopian way propagated by modern left-oriented politics just cannot be maintained. Imagine we have a project with 15 people. We already have 5-6 minority groups. But how about e.g. hair color? I know that it is no way related to the good work in project, but things people do in bed are also not related. And at least 10 groups more go in!
Social situation... Notice it changes from country to country, here we have capitalism, there family-related divisions, in other countries caste system is firm, so let's count 50 minority groups as the world's modest minimum.
Or maybe modern public enemy nb. 1 - ugly people? One more group goes in!
Add all likes and dislikes people can hypothetically be segregated with by some morons, and we have more groups than people in project. In the worst case, we will end with involving incompetent people only for papers to be OK. I'm from an ex-eastern block country, writing from experience, this DOES NOT work well.
However, I see another problem here - it's pushing politics where it should not be. This way, the Free Software movement which requires a high knowledge and is, and always was, seriously undermanpowered, may just waste resources on discussions like in above paragraph instead of solving problems. It looks like this legend with communists in U.S. Congress in the middle of the Cold War: The politician said to one journalist, that there are 10 communists in the Congress. Competing newspaper journalist got another answer - that there are 5 communists. A week later all people were discussing how many communists are in Congress and nobody asked are there any communists at all.
P.S. Communists! One more group goes in! :)