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

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Mon May 14 19:58:55 EEST 2018


On 5/14/18, 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.

Lies, Lies and Lies.

>
> 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.

I vote for 2.


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