[coreboot] Thread derailment

[David Hendricks]

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?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/attachments/20180501/2166866e/attachment.html>