Re: Boost Asset Stewardship Review from Ion

From: Christian Mazakas (christian.mazakas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-10 14:42:03

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 6:54 AM Jakob Lövhall via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Just to add a point of what people want, I, as a person, does not want
> anything called Code of Conduct.
> They are highly political and their presence makes me see the organization
> having it as highly politicised.
>

You should judge something by its content, and not by its name. But it
seems like it's more effective from a psychological perspective to eschew
the name because of its triggering effect on the Boost community.

The goal is simple: attract newcomers by declaring we're a fair and open
community, and that people will be free from harassment. We already
technically have this, so the problem now shifts to one of prominence and
discoverability.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 2:06 PM [soda-pressed] via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> As someone watching this from the sideline, I would say not adopting a
> document can be as much of a statement as adopting one. A code of conduct
> is as good as the people instituting them. Wouldn't it be fair to say that
> the proposed steering committee could craft an adequate code that is useful
> enough for the needs of both the existing members, as well as to the
> advantage of anyone who would like to participate in the project and may
> wonder about its policies? Is it to the benefit of the project to make a
> point of not providing a clearly defined code of conduct?
>

To this point, we can simply do what the cpplang slack already does and
have an Acceptable Use Policy. The AUP is basically a CoC without a CoC.
I'm willing to psychologically game both sides of the field here.

Much like C++, my leadership and vision for Boost comes with a forward
progress guarantee. We can rebrand our current policy as an AUP and make it
much more prominent and discoverable, likely starting at the github repo
level and then working upwards.

We live in an era where a younger generation of programmers has seen the
toxicity in open-source and now we have an onus to convey that we are the
welcoming community we claim to be.

Will this actually yield results? Who knows. But experimentation is part of
the fun.

- Christian