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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/2/15 1:17 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13928

Andrei