RFC: Small change to KDE Manifesto Commitments

[Boudhayan Gupta]

I was suggesting either of Abide by or Respect. I would prefer Respect
since it's friendlier, and implies obedience as well as suggests allegiance
to the spirit of the law.


Freundliche Grüße
Boudhayan Gupta
KDE e.V. - Community Working Group
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On 15 September 2017 at 21:31, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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