[coreboot] Thread derailment

[ron minnich]

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 at 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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