RFC: Small change to KDE Manifesto Commitments

[Alexander Neundorf]

On 2017 M09 15, Fri 20:02:35 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On 15. Sep 2017, at 04:34, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:> 
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >> El divendres, 15 de setembre de 2017, a les 1:10:32 CEST, Boudhayan Gupta
> >> va>> 
> >> escriure:
> >>> While we're at it, might I suggest also changing the first line to
> >>> "[Respect/Abide by] the KDE Code of Conduct" instead of "Support"?
> >> 
> >> Any linguist on the room?
> >> 
> >> Can you explain why you think it matters?
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> 
> >>  Albert
> > 
> > I'm not a linguist, but if we are making other changes, then I support
> > making the change from "support" to "respect and abide by" which is
> > stronger and more specific.
> > 
> > The suggestion to add "Support the KDE Vision and Mission" is a good
> > one, so I support both changes.
> > 
> > Valorie
> 
> I’m also for adding the Vision / Mission support and for strengthening the
> wording on the CoC, though I find “respect and abide by” a bit too much. I
> thought Boudhayan was just suggesting to use either of those.
> 
> So maybe “abide by”, as that already for me kinda implies “respect” (we’re
> not exactly the kind of people who abide by rules they don’t even respect).

I'd prefer "respect", it sounds more friendly to me.

Alex