Idea #6705: Make 'Ubuntu Code of Conduct' less tech savvy

Written by eyalev the 9 Apr 08 at 13:47. Category: Education.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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The 'Ubuntu Code of Conduct' has too much programmers slang. It should be addressed also to 'Humans' who don't know what is 'frozen system' or 'upstream community'.

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct

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glotz wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 14:44

lol? what evil words do you see there?

peterjs wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 19:28

If you don't understand a section, that's probably because it doesn't apply to you.

Jimbo99 wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 22:59

Ubuntu is for human beings. All things about it should be taken from the perspective of human beings. That includes the mission statements, codes of conduct, documentation, ideology about how something should be implemented and what is important enough to be fixed. We should focus on the human being and on what it takes to make us work better instead of on the programmer.

I have seen a lot of posts lately where people are attacking suggestions others are making in this brainstorming site. I believe they lack the ability to understand the purpose of this site. Maybe that is written in machine language also and they only think they can read it.

It is the human being that matters. All things human matter. Rid us of the techno babble so we can focus on making this a better computing owrld.

rs3york wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 02:16

Programmers are not human beings?

This whole "For Human Beings" thing is quite simply being abused by some. It seems suddenly humans should not have to LEARN anything.

Humans have different perspectives, so if anything there should be *different* Codes of Conduct, one for contributors and another for users/community members.

This is right up there with the release notes suggestions that espouse simplifying matters so much, they don't even say the names of the programs! Apparently, saying "Inkscape, the drawing program, now does X,Y,Z" is too much to ask of human beings to understand.

revzoe wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 07:19

The sections of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct which contain tech-savvy phrases are there because they are precise phrases aimed at the people who understand what they mean. A user who does not know what a "feature freeze" is has a very low likelyhood of uploading major changes during one.

revzoe wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 07:19

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