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

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?

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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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:24PM (2 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:24PM (#1005970) Journal

    Clearly he's a wise man.

    Yes, I agree. But a high degree of wisdom is even rarer than a high degree of intelligence, because you almost always need the latter to obtain the former, and most highly intelligent people just never get there regardless.

    So what we actually have to deal with is a world of only moderately thoughtful, usually only first-level thinking people who are repeatedly surprised by the consequences of their own actions, and the actions of others, and the consequences of those other's actions as well.

    In such a world, ingrained manners and respect would go a very long way towards insulating the vulnerable from such consequences, and the surprises delivered courtesy thereof, but... yeah, that's not the world we live in.

    In fact, the Internet at large (and real life) is expanding a bumper crop of deeper penetrations of social tactics in the vein of ostracism and discrimination [both based variously on age, race, color, gender, sexuality, superstition or lack thereof, tattoos, piercings, place of residence, country of origin, native language, accent, credit, legal issues, weight, body odor, politics, number of parents, number of spouses... and probably a whole lot more that don't come immediately to mind].

    These come in every flavor from silent elimination from consideration, to verbal/posted abuse, to sabotage, to outings, to assault, to murder and... really, everywhere in between. That's the reality of it all.

    So while yeah, it'd be faaaabulous if everyone was smart, and wise, and close-mouthed about their particular characteristics... and if the other side of the equation was peopled by those who didn't feel any need to abuse those who aren't perfect candidate members for their preferred clique... however, the world doesn't work that way and is moving further away from such things all the time. Sad to say.

    Hence codes of conduct. Because some (quite a few, actually) people behave poorly and without much — or any — concern for the people they are treating to their oh-so-correct points of view. Codes of conduct can, if done moderately well (perfection isn't going to happen, so it's pointless to even try to assert that only perfection will do), keep the nastiness down to a dull roar.

    In the end, it makes no sense to let things go further into the shitter because they "ought" to be some other way, when [A] clearly they aren't that way, and [B] there's no perceptible chance they're going to go that way in either the short or the relatively long term.

    If you don't want a code of conduct to bite you, don't be an asshole. Politeness and respect are their own rewards. They're always worth the candle, barring a pre-existing state of conflict. Sometimes, even then.

    For those who can't manage that... yep, that's why codes of conduct come into being. And no, it's almost certainly not because these codes of conduct are mechanisms to discriminate against anything other than discrimination itself.

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    Give me ambiguity, or give me something else.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:47PM (#1006045)

    Not sure intelligence is prequisite to wisdom.

    • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:20PM

      by meustrus (4961) on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:20PM (#1006600)

      Either intelligence or the good luck to follow only the right prophets.

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