On 2013.05.26 13:40, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Roy Bamford 
> <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> > I would delete everything from "Examples of inappropriate behavior"
> to
> > the credits at the end. Escalation, punishment and appeal is 
> already
> > covered by devrel documentation.
> >
> 
> I suspect that lack of punishment was basically the whole reason the
> original CoC was written, and the whole reason the topic came up
> again.
> 
> > If you want to say anything about enforcement in the CoC remind
> readers
> > that everyone is responsible for enforcement.
> 
> That sounds a bit like nobody is responsible for enforcement.  The
> only thing devs can do to basically do what they're already doing -
> having running arguments on the lists.  The only way to block
> inappropriate behavior is to moderate it.
> 
> Whether we want to do that is up to the community, but the existing
> CoC is fine as-is if you don't want to do anything about enforcement,
> IMHO.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 

We have already tried the <small group> is responsible for enforcement 
approach.  

Even if we encourage everyone to intervene, most won't, for many 
reasons, so in practice we are back to the <small group> again.
 
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