[Scons-dev] Code of conduct?

[anatoly techtonik]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:02 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> An extra 2cents of opinion from me.. ;)
>>
>> A few things a CoC would help with:
>> 1) It could encourage more participation on the mailing lists. Open source
>> projects have been notorious for scathing responses to simple questions.
>> Surprisingly I've been at clients who have used SCons for years and never a
>> single member of their staff has asked a question on the mailing list.. I
>> was shocked.
>
>
> I don't think this attitude is uncommon.  Many of my past coworkers view
> interacting on forums and mailing lists as a "hassle", and they would rather
> try to brute force since they "know" best. I'm not sure this can be helped.
> unfortunately.

I agree. Businesses discourage people from spending time on forums. They
can only understand it if they pay money for it. Also not many companies
want outside World to know that they can't do something themselves.

So, if business people want straightforward and nice discussions, let them
pay for it. Otherwise there is conflict that those of us who volunteers and
are not being paid should behave well in order to provide free service for
those who don't care.

The paragraph above is an example that CoC doesn't solve anything, because
it doesn't remove causes of conflicts.

-- 
anatoly t.