Guidelines for respectful communication

[Tim Watson]

I think this is brilliant. Will have a good read of them, and do my best to
adopt them for my own projects and any interactions I have within the
community.

Thank you Simon!

PS: we love you too! :D

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 10:35, Simon Peyton Jones via Glasgow-haskell-users <
glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org> wrote:

> Friends
> As many of you will know, I have 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.
> We discussed this at a meeting of the GHC Steering Committee<
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals> at ICFP in September, and
> many of us have had related discussions since.  Arising out of that
> conversation, the GHC Steering Committee has decided to adopt these
>               Guidelines for respectful communication<
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/GRC.rst>
>
> We are not trying to impose these guidelines on members of the Haskell
> community generally. Rather, we are adopting them for ourselves, as a
> signal that we seek high standards of discourse in the Haskell community,
> and are willing to publicly hold ourselves to that standard, in the hope
> that others may choose to follow suit.
> We are calling them "guidelines for respectful communication" rather than
> a "code of conduct", because we want to encourage good communication,
> rather than focus on bad behaviour.  Richard Stallman's recent post<
> https://lwn.net/Articles/769167/> about the new GNU Kind Communication
> Guidelines<https://gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html> expresses
> the same idea.
> Meanwhile, the Stack community is taking a similar approach<
> https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2018/11/proposal-stack-coc>.
> Our guidelines are not set in stone; you can comment here<
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/commit/373044b5a78519071b9a24b3681cfd1af06e57e0>.
>  Perhaps they can evolve so that other Haskell committees (or even
> individuals) feel able to adopt them.
> The Haskell community is such a rich collection of intelligent,
> passionate, and committed people. Thank you -- I love you all!
> Simon
>
>
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