Hi,
On 21 January 2016 at 04:37, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed you were contacted by Randi Lee Harper [https://archive.is/b8RDW], the ironically
> abusive founder of the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative
> [https://archive.is/eqco9][http://archive.is/A1Azz] known for attacking and attempting to eject from
> projects/employment people she associates with groups she doesn’t approve of
> [http://archive.is/1A8SQ], wherein she suggested that you ignore the Code of Merit that Pavel
> recommended for consideration because she associates the author of said code with a group
> that—though entirely unrelated to his Open Source contributions—she finds undesirable and then
> proceeded to make general derogatory comments about him [again, https://archive.is/b8RDW].
Are you here to debate the proposed COC, or to mount personal attacks
on someone outside of the PHP community?
> (My deepest apologies for such a tremendous run-on sentence.)
>
> I certainly hope this isn’t indicative of the spirit of this proposal. This exchange really
> seems to suggest the goal of these codes in general, and now possibly this one in particular, is
> what so many of us have feared: to exclude people with wrong ideas and associations, as defined by
> the in-group.
Is that what the RFC actually states though? As it's a code of
conduct, it's directed at specific actions not whatever is running
through your, or my, head.
Paddy