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Dora Scilipoti |
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www/server/staging kind-communication.html |
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Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:32:38 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 19/10/23 00:32:38
Added files:
server/staging : kind-communication.html
Log message:
Draft to improve readability.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/kind-communication.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 -->
+<title>GNU Kind Communications Guidelines
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+ <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/kind-communication.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>GNU Kind Communications Guidelines</h2>
+
+<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></p>
+
+<h3>Premise</h3>
+
+<p>The GNU Project encourages contributions from anyone who wishes to
+advance the development of the GNU system, regardless of gender, race,
+ethnic group, physical appearance, religion, cultural background, and
+any other demographic characteristics, as well as personal political
+views.</p>
+
+<p>People are sometimes discouraged from participating in GNU
+development because of certain patterns of communication that strike
+them as unfriendly, unwelcoming, rejecting, or harsh. This
+discouragement particularly affects members of disprivileged
+demographics, but it is not limited to them. Therefore, we ask all
+contributors to make a conscious effort, in GNU Project discussions,
+to communicate in ways that avoid that outcome—to avoid
+practices that will predictably and unnecessarily risk putting some
+contributors off.</p>
+
+<p>These guidelines suggest specific ways to accomplish that goal.</p>
+
+<h3>Guidelines</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Please assume other participants are posting in good faith, even if
+ you disagree with what they say. When people present code or text as
+ their own work, please accept it as their work. Please do not
+ criticize people for wrongs that you only speculate they may have
+ done; stick to what they actually say and actually do.</li>
+
+ <li>Please think about how to treat other participants with respect,
+ especially when you disagree with them. For instance, call them by the
+ names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender
+ identity<a href="#f1">[1]</a>.</li>
+
+ <li>Please do not take a harsh tone towards other participants, and
+ especially don't make personal attacks against them. Go out of your
+ way to show that you are criticizing a statement, not a person.</li>
+
+ <li>Please recognize that criticism of your statements is not a
+ personal attack on you. If you feel that someone has attacked you, or
+ offended your personal dignity, please don't “hit back”
+ with another personal attack. That tends to start a vicious circle of
+ escalating verbal aggression. A private response, politely stating
+ your feelings <em>as feelings</em>, and asking for peace, may calm
+ things down. Write it, set it aside for hours or a day, revise it to
+ remove the anger, and only then send it.</li>
+
+ <li>Please avoid statements about the presumed typical desires,
+ capabilities or actions of some demographic group. They can offend
+ people in that group, and they are always off-topic in GNU Project
+ discussions.</li>
+
+ <li>Please be especially kind to other contributors when saying they
+ made a mistake. Programming means making lots of mistakes, and we all
+ do so—this is why regression tests are useful. Conscientious
+ programmers make mistakes, and then fix them. It is helpful to show
+ contributors that being imperfect is normal, so we don't hold it
+ against them, and that we appreciate their imperfect contributions
+ though we hope they follow through by fixing any problems in them.</li>
+
+ <li>Likewise, be kind when pointing out to other contributors that they
+ should stop using certain nonfree software. For their own sake, they
+ ought to free themselves, but we welcome their contributions to our
+ software packages even if they don't do that. So these reminders
+ should be gentle and not too frequent—don't nag.
+
+ <p>By contrast, to suggest that others use nonfree software opposes
+ the basic principles of GNU, so it is not allowed in GNU Project
+ discussions.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Please respond to what people actually said, not to exaggerations
+ of their views. Your criticism will not be constructive if it is aimed
+ at a target other than their real views.</li>
+
+ <li>If in a discussion someone brings up a tangent to the topic at
+ hand, please keep the discussion on track by focusing on the current
+ topic rather than the tangent. This is not to say that the tangent is
+ bad, or not interesting to discuss—only that it shouldn't
+ interfere with discussion of the issue at hand. In most cases, it is
+ also off-topic, so those interested ought to discuss it somewhere
+ else.
+
+ <p>If you think the tangent is an important and pertinent issue,
+ please bring it up as a separate discussion, with a Subject field to
+ fit, and consider waiting for the end of the current discussion.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Rather than trying to have the last word, look for the times when
+ there is no need to reply, perhaps because you already made the
+ relevant point clear enough. If you know something about the game of
+ Go, this analogy might clarify that: when the other player's move is not
+ strong enough to require a direct response, it is advantageous to give
+ it none and instead move elsewhere.</li>
+
+ <li>Please don't argue unceasingly for your preferred course of action
+ when a decision for some other course has already been made. That
+ tends to block the activity's progress.</li>
+
+ <li>If other participants complain about the way you express your
+ ideas, please make an effort to cater to them. You can find ways to
+ express the same points while making others more comfortable. You are
+ more likely to persuade others if you don't arouse ire about secondary
+ things.</li>
+
+ <li>Please don't raise unrelated political issues in GNU Project
+ discussions, because they are off-topic. The only political positions
+ that the GNU Project endorses are (1) that users should have control
+ of their own computing (for instance, through free software) and (2)
+ supporting basic human rights in computing. We don't require you as a
+ contributor to agree with these two points, but you do need to accept
+ that our decisions will be based on them.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>By making an effort to follow these guidelines, we will encourage
+more contribution to our projects, and our discussions will be
+friendlier and reach conclusions more easily.</p>
+
+<h3 style="font-size:1em">Footnote</h3>
+<ol>
+ <li id="f1">
+ <p>Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes
+ not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity.
+ For instance, not to use pronouns for them that conflict with it.
+ There are several ways to avoid that; one way is to use
+ gender-neutral pronouns, since they don't conflict with any
+ possible gender identity. One choice is singular use of
+ “they,” “them” and “their.”
+ Another choice uses the gender-neutral singular pronouns,
+ “person,” “per” and “pers,”
+ which are used in
+ <a href="/prep/maintain/maintain.html#About-This-Document">
+ Information for Maintainers of GNU Software</a>.
+ Other gender-neutral pronouns have also been used in English.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+</ol>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
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+ document was modified, or published.
+
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+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2018, 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2019/10/23 04:32:38 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
+</body>
+</html>
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