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On 13 October 2015 at 17:09, Rafael Espíndola <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > I assume the end objective of such a policy is to have more effective > communications, so it would be nice to have some examples to avoid it > instead hampering communications by pushing unnecessary political > correctness. +2!!! > * Small, on the side jokes are OK if people are not

...aft that makes me feel concerned. The essence of that argument is that since you don't feel concerns, nobody else should. I do not think I'll follow that. > Is it > wordy and long? Maybe a little. Actually it seems to be improving, but from my perspective, it's still far too overspecific and too easily abused. Note that my concerns are different from Renatos: Renato fears a power grab by the enforcement committee, I fear that regardless of how the committee is elected the whole thing is open to degeneration. > But, I think it represents the > people of this community an...

...nt damage before it can happen. I'm quite sceptical about that. It's hard to do in general because you can't really foresee what people will do, and it will give trolls just another tool to work with; last time it was badly done because it tried to cover all bases and ended up being overspecific (judging from the comments, it's still happening; I can't see the text because the website requires Javascript and I cannot activate that on non-preapproved websites). However, some people in the committee insist. I suspect some want to protect the current cooperative tone, and some w...

On 5 May 2016 at 23:06, Tanya Lattner <tanyalattner at llvm.org> wrote: > The point is that you wouldn’t know that from looking at the alternative code of conduct. I would need to spend months pouring through mailing lists posts and watching the community to feel its a good and safe place. Right, this is a very good point for having something written down. > One of the many reasons

Greetings all, This has come up a few times, and I would like to resume the effort to establish an LLVM code of conduct. First and foremost, many thanks to Philip Reames who sat down with me several months ago and worked through a number of suggestions that I've tried to incorporate into an updated patch with the draft text: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13741 I think his updates plus a few

Hi all, I''ve been thinking about the whole validator/relationship speccing issue, and I came up with a suggestion, which I''d love to get some feedback on. The full article is available at http://www.inter-sections.net/ 2007/10/19/what-to-test-and-specify-and-where-to-do-it/ , with the relevant bit being about halfway down, but here''s the gist of it: 1.

Greetings everyone, On behalf of the board of the LLVM Foundation, I’d like to start the process of introducing a formal code of conduct for the community. For a long time, various members of the community have been enforcing basic reasonable and respectful behavior, but to an outsider this may not be obvious. A public code of conduct advertises the behavior we expect of community members and