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Case study: GCCCase study: GCCPosted Jun 8, 2006 6:05 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Case study: GCC by pimlott Parent article: Behavioral standards in the free software community The GCC project doesn't have any hard rules about politeness, it's just about social norms. People do occasionally get angry or rude, but you just don't see that much of it. When things get hot, people often contact each other off-list and smooth things out. Any development list has a norm; people read it for a while and they get a clue as to how people interact on that list, not just what's on topic, but the general tone. In its entire history since the EGCS fork, only one person was ever expelled from the gcc mailing lists. The jerk in question flooded the list with his rants and made several threats of violence, both on-list and off-list, against the release manager at the time, and the steering committee discussed whether we'd have to get the police involved, but fortunately the guy just went away after he was banned. With EGCS, we tried to set up a culture that was based on consensus. If you can work out a solution that everyone can live with, that beats a solution that wins by a 2/3 vote every time, because all of the serious objections have been answered. Of course, that isn't always possible; then if it's a technical issue, you want the best expert in that area that you have to decide, and if it's "political", you want to come as close to unanimous as you can.
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