Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:91143
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:33:48 +0000 (GMT)
To: PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602091208150.7348@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl>
User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Subject: [VOTE] Contributor Guidelines, and Updates to Code of Conduct
 progress
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

Hello!

Things have quieted down around the Code of Conduct and Contributor 
Guidelines process, but I have not been sitting still. In the last week, 
the following things happened:

- I had a call with the Drupal Community Working Group - as suggested by 
  Larry Garfield. Stanislav was on the call as well.

  Take aways:

  - Texts should be void from ambiguity.

  - Although their CWG dealt with plenty of cases, no punitive action 
    has occured as parties would often step back themselves. In most 
    cases, a gently reminder was all that was necessary.

  - We should be reluctant to limit the scope of the Code of Conduct and 
    Contributor Guidelines.

  - A Code of Conduct without *any* 'teeth' would not be beneficial.

  - We should start with suggesting/nominating people for the Mediation 
    Team *before* deciding on the procedures and guidelines that 
    they should mediate around. The underlaying reason is that if the 
    team is known upfront, there ought to be more understanding for the 
    general developer community. Or in other words, there should be no 
    reason that "I would only put my friends on it".

    I do however have a few people in mind that I will reach out to 
    privately, to see whether they are interested. If you have any 
    suggestions for people that you consider reliable, considerate, and 
    empathic, please reach out to them yourself, or let me know and I 
    will.

- The RFC text has seen a few updates as well.

  - @jessamynwest improved some of the text for "encouraged behaviour"
    https://github.com/derickr/php-community-health/commit/134670974b000483c2a179a02fc05a6d2de85d97
  - @hnrysmth imported some new phrases from the Contributor Covenant 
    1.4 over
    https://github.com/derickr/php-community-health/commit/8ca9fe70538b036a938acbafa5f5f27f91228602
  - @connerbw added a more general blurb about PHP and the commitment of 
    the PHP team to be inclusive
    https://github.com/derickr/php-community-health/commit/e6c33f4b81975f2b2f27919e37c585322f829a1c
  - I combined the three bits of text around mailinglist posting 
    guidelines into the Contributor Guidelines 
    https://github.com/derickr/php-community-health/commit/7c55d1dd407524cdab593b885e6b3101bf590769

I feel that the "Contributor Guidelines" are now in a reasonable shape 
to do a quick poll to gauge acceptability. As this is not a formal RFC 
vote, it's simply done through an online poll: 
http://twtpoll.com/y6hs4ndsfiki485

Voting is non-binding, and will end at Friday February 12th, at noon
UTC.

Feel free to reply here with suggestions, comments, etc.

cheers,
Derick