[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC][ALT PATCHES] Code of Conduct Enforcement

[Rostislav Pehlivanov]

On 14 May 2018 at 17:50, Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> This is a little rambling / stream of thought, but take it as you will,
> and perhaps some discussion or change comes of it. Or, more likely,
> personal
> attacks, flames, and no change. Or 1 few will reply and then the thread
> will
> die and people will go on like it never happened. Sorry to be pessimistic,
> but history speaks for itself.
>
> Currently this list, and IRC, is a terrible place for developers and users.
> Harassment is tolerated, and the CoC has never been enforced. There are
> absolutely no repercussions as it currently stands. When develpers see
> others
> being abused, do nothing and then continue to act and interact with the
> abuses as if nothing happened, in the future.
>
> This current set up of everybody flaming each other endlessly, and endless
> harassment merely lets abuse proliferate, because nobody sticks up for each
> other and no abusers have ever been removed, ever, in the history of
> FFmpeg.
> Not one thing has changed, ever, since the introduction of the CoC. It is
> an absolute failure by all metrics.
>
> I know I am not alone having been driven away by such behavior. Even when
> I started to contribute (a little, not much) again, upon joining IRC, for
> example, I was immediately attacked. This is not just happening to one
> person though.
>

iive just noticed you joined, said hi, and you left saying you were
attacked. Since when is a normal form of welcoming back considered an
attack? I agree with jamrial, you definitely overreacted.


To be honest, I am not really sure what can be done. Large portions of
> the list simply do not support anti-abuse measures at all. Even the
> concept of them. How does one manage to implement them without support
> of even 50% of a community? VideoLAN managed to do this but it took a lot
> of formal stuff on their board and people quitting to get it done. j-b
> is some sort of wizard.
>
> I know my opinion is not worth much, since I am now more or less an
> outsider
> since 2015, but maybe someone cares about this stuff, too.
>
> So, I present to you two possible options:
>
>     1. Implement a formal CoC enforcement system. This has been mostly
> copypasted
>        from VideoLAN's, and is meant as more of a blueprint. This will no
> doubt
>        be controversial.
>     2. Remove the CoC. If you're not going to enforce it, ever, there is
> literally
>        no point in having one. I know some members of this community
> object to the
>        very notion of a CoC, so this should please them, I am sure.
>
> I'm sure this will be a civil discussion.
>

2's a nice option.  The recent llvm fiasco demonstrated the dangers of CoCs
being used by the wrong people.