Regarding the FSP-S thread - sorry, but I did not see any derailment.
The whole thread - 'Why do we have FSP-S' - is about "why we should
have more blobs when we already have enough?" And its understandable
that some people got upset while seeing how coreboot is slowly turning
from being almost completely open source to the big collection of blobs
launching each other. Hopefully this reply would not get me removed...
We've had to remove people from the list before, and I suppose at some point
it might have to happen again. Nobody likes this option. Sometimes there is
no choice.
I agree that on a technical discussion list there's no place for abusive
language. We're all trying to do the best we can in a non-ideal world.
ron
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:03 AM David Hendricks david.hendricks@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello all,
Recently I've noticed an uptick in threads going off-topic. While some
noise should be expected on an open source mailing list, I think it's become
very counterproductive in many recent cases. A good example is the FSP-S
thread going on where we see clear examples of people interjecting with
non-technical diatribes and disrespecting developers, corporate
contributors, and coreboot itself in violation of the existing community
standards (https://coreboot.org/Code_of_Conduct).
Most of this is perpetrated by a very small handful of individuals who
have not contributed anything to the codebase, so I think the current
problem could be dealt with easily. It might also be worth adding something
about keeping threads on-topic and focused on technology in the Code of
Conduct.
Another option would be to have a developer-only mailing list, but I think
it's best to try and keep things open to the community at large even if that
means ejecting the most disruptive members.
Thoughts?
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