On 7/15/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
liked some, didn't like others. "etiquette guidelines" doesn't have the same toxic punch as "code of conduct" is well-known for.
The word "code" in "code of conduct" does usually implies formal membership, so I thought it might be confusing to some people if the phrase became popular in closed circles.
Etiquette guidelines isn't perfect either, because samba technically actually has a page called "Etiquette" however that refers to trimming mailing list posts and not in any way how people ought to treat each other.
Perhaps "Contributor Conduct Guidelines"?
liked
the idea of including the VCS and if it's libre-hosted (likewise for bugtracker) but *not* the wording you chose ("self-hosted").
I opted to separate it like that to make it more unambiguous, since there are two possible definitions of libre in regard to websites: open-source/free scripts and open-source/free server code. Most browsers provide no practical way to prove the source code belongs to the scripts actually sent by the server, without running them, and because of this it might be argued that the server code should also be libre so that anyone could run an offline mirror.
If we say arbitrarily that a website is libre it could mean one of three things: functions w/o script, open-source/free scripts, or open-source/free server code.
The assumption is that if the server code is libre, then self-hosting should make by extension the repositories libre. Though, I suppose there would be nothing hindering someone from just omitting that part of the server code, on second thought. It's a tricky situation.
also i turned the table round by 90 degrees as i could see it getting far too long, and then broke them down into related groups. still some TODO.
Thanks, much less cluttered!
I use cut-and-paste to convert the spaces to tabs just now to clean the source.
Also, on a side note, I put urbit on there because they are unorthodox and because they have an unusually high ratio interest compared to people actually able to contribute, much like you would expect from RISC or KiCAD, but not 'another' replacement for apache.