Re: [Boost-announce] Boost Asset Stewardship Review begins today (3rd Sept)

From: Christian Mazakas (christian.mazakas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-20 14:50:38

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 1:27 AM Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> My next questions may also come across as offensive or hostile, but I
> really do not mean them this way. I feel I need to ask them, because this
> matter affects me deeply.
>
> Should the following items from the Boost Foundation Stewardship Proposal
> be implemented:
> * Incorporate and enforce a strong code of conduct
> * Make an active effort to improve behavior on the mailing list
> * Consider adopting a modern communication platform, such as discourse
>

We should at the minimum update our discussion policy, because it still
alludes to "flame wars" lol.

The next generation of programmers like seeing publicly visible Codes of
Conduct. Probably because of all the previous toxicity in open-source
development.

We should all make an effort to improve our behavior on the ML, myself
included.

A modern communication platform would be nice. Zulip is good. Discords are
crazy popular, especially with The Youth.

Slack used to be popular back in the day but now it's largely inactive in
comparison to the other discords I'm a part of.

These include the Rust Community Discord, #include <C++>, Together C & C++.

> 1. Is Vinnie Falco going to be removed from these social spaces (Mailing
> List, Discourse) as the next step?
> 2. Will the questions like mine in this email be moderated out?
>

Ha ha, I don't see why we'd ban anyone right off the bat.

We need to give people the room to make mistakes and then the opportunities
to correct themselves. And even more importantly, to ask questions.

I'm certainly not in favor of an overly punitive and weaponized code of
conduct. The point of the CoC, in my opinion, is to ensure that we have a
backing document we can cite when moderating people that introduce
unprofessional behavior or language into the process of developing and
contributing to Boost.

- Christian