[GHC DevOps Group] Guidelines

[Manuel Chakravarty]

More than a month elapsed since this message. Is the silence tacit approval or disinterest in the topic? I’d love to hear at least from some of you.

Cheers,
Manuel

> Am 06.12.2018 um 17:05 schrieb Manuel Chakravarty <manuel.chakravarty at tweag.io>:
> 
> Dear DevOps Group,
> 
> The GHC Steering Committee has recently decided to adopt a set of ”Guidelines for Respectful Communication” due to ongoing concern about the standards of discourse in the Haskell community:
> 
>  https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/GRC.rst
> 
> I’ll leave it to Simon PJ’s excellent explanation to lay out the detailed motivation:
> 
>> As many of you will know, I’ve been concerned for several years about the standards of discourse in the Haskell community.  I think things have improved since the period that drove me to write my Respect email <https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2016-September/024995.html>, but it’s far from secure.
>> 
>> I have thought about trying to introduce a code of conduct for the Haskell community, but (a) getting agreement about such a thing would be hard, (b) we have no credible enforcement mechanism and (c) some people disagree that it would even be helpful.
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>> I have also considered publishing a kind of personal code of conduct, describing the standards to which I hold myself (doubtless all too fallibly).  I was concerned that this would over-personalise the issue.
>> 
>> In the light of all this, following discussion at ICFP, the GHC Steering Committee has decided to adopt these "Guidelines for Respectful Communication”.
>> 
>> as a middle way.  We are adopting it for ourselves, not imposing it on others.  But in doing so we hope to give a clear lead to the community about the standards that we espouse for our professional dialogue.  
>> 
>> We deliberately decided to use the term “guidelines for respectful communication”, rather than “code of conduct”, for reasons that Stallman lays out in his recently-released GNU Kind Communications Guidelines: https://lwn.net/Articles/769167/
> 
> In this context, it is important to note that the intention for these guidelines is to apply to us (the DevOps group members) with the intention of setting a good example and not to police the broader community, which we do not have the mandate to do anyway.
> 
> Personally, I am strongly in favour for us to follow the example of the GHC Steering Committee and to adopt the same rules, in order to project a uniform picture from all GHC committees.
> 
> Cheers,
> Manuel
> 
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