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New FreeBSD Code of Conduct

posted by martyb on Wednesday June 10 2020, @01:46PM   
from the setting-a-breakpoint-so-humans-can-try-to-debug-a-code-(of-conduct) dept.

kc99 wrote in with a story which inspired:

FreeBSD has announced a new LLVM-derived code of conduct.

According to a 2018 survey "35% were dissatisfied with the code of conduct adopted in 2018, 34% were neutral, and 30% were satisfied." So, they held another survey at the start start of June:

Which code of conduct should FreeBSD adopt?

An LLVM-derived code of conduct:
https://github.com/freebsd/core.10-public-docs/blob/master/CoC/llvm-based.md

A Go-Derived code of conduct:
https://github.com/freebsd/core.10-public-docs/blob/master/CoC/golang-based.md

Retain the current code of conduct:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200108075747/https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct.html

RESULTS

• 4% favoured keeping the current code of conduct
• 33% favoured the Go-derived code of conduct
• 63% favoured the LLVM-derived code of conduct.

Thus, the Core Team, following the preference of a majority of active
FreeBSD developers, adopted the LLVM-derived code of conduct.

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Original Submission

• Follow the money (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:59PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:59PM (#1005820)

  An extra requirement of parsing lawyerese for the privilege to be an unpaid coder is obviously a disincentive; while for a paid corporate drone assigned to the project, it is nothing different to the things they have to endure anyhow.

  The obvious conclusion is, the CoC push is designed to remove freelance coders from the projects that corporations choose to take over completely.

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