Community and contribution [was: Re: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25]

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d]

On 02/01/15 10:26, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Good stuff, thanks. Question about this:

I'm glad it seems useful; I wondered after writing if it was a bit too much of a 
rambling mess :-P

>> TL;DR: I think it would be good to have a strong community guideline
>> that people are not to be criticized or treated badly for having
>> requests or suggestions, even if they are not willing to implement
>> them themselves.  The quid pro quo is that it's necessary to be
>> (calmly) candid with people about the limits of _only_ contributing
>> ideas or requests: "You can ask but not demand".
>
> What would be an appropriate place to put this?

How about a link at the top of the forum.dlang.org page saying something like, 
"Before posting, please read our _community guidelines_" ?  With the page linked 
to containing advice like the above.

I know that there's always been a lot of pride that we've always been able to 
get along without some kind of code of conduct, but ... well, guidelines are not 
the same as a code, and anyway, not having guidance just doesn't scale in my 
experience.