Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
So, I read through the list of guidelines, and while I have some minor quibbles with them, overall they seem fine and reasonable.<p>But what happens if someone refuses to be kind? What happens if that person is a major contributor? What would happen if, in some strange alternate reality, Linux was a GNU project, and Linus-of-2012 said he&#x27;d really rather not care about all this politeness nonsense, and would prefer to continue on the way he was?<p>The problem I see with your bees&#x2F;honey comment is that there is no commitment here from the maintainers and leaders of the project. This is just a more verbose &quot;Be kind to each other&quot;, but without any commitment from the leadership of the project to actually maintain a kind, welcoming environment.<p>A non-committal claim to be kind may be honey, but its on a flytrap, and many people recognize this.