As a lurker here with lots of opinions on CoCs, I fully support the HBR
moving in that direction. The question of enforceability should get
worked out there. So, whatever is desired to be just best-practice
ideals should not be in a CoC but can be in an aligned accessory
document. Whatever is meant to be really enforceable can go in a CoC.
I've been meaning to write out meta blog-post stuff on it, but for
Snowdrift.coop we worked through all the best resources on CoCs to come
up with what we feel is the next-generation that's really needed, and
it's ironically very relevant to HBR:
The whole issue is that back-channels *are* the appropriate place for
much CoC issues. When CoC stuff is too public, there's all sorts of
face-saving defensiveness and signalling about sides instead of
resolution. Restorative and Transformative Justice ideas emphasize
mediated resolutions with adequate privacy and context.
So, it's really important that HBR ideas have the right scope and don't
pull in radical-transparency dogma where it is dangerous.
For reference on our CoC:
https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/community/conduct
https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/community/values
https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/community/conduct-enforcement
Hope that's helpful perspective here. Happy to clarify or discuss any
relevant questions.
-Aaron Wolf
On 2019-04-18 9:01 a.m., Richard Fontana wrote:
Hindering Backchannels Rule[tm] cure:
Yesterday I spoke with Bradley Kuhn. We noted that copyleft-next never
adopted a code of conduct -- as I put it (paraphrasing),
"copyleft-next is so *old* that it largely predates the contemporary
FOSS concern regarding adoption of codes of conduct". Leaving aside
the fact that copyleft-next has been a bit dormant for quite some time
(something which I am hoping may change in the near future), I believe
copyleft-next ought to adopt a Code of Conduct. As I think Bradley
said in the conversation yesterday, it may be that the Hindering
Backchannels Rule properly belongs within a Code of Conduct.
Incorporating HBR in a Code of Conduct may address concerns about
enforceability.
Richard
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