[vlc-devel] Report of potential Code of Conduct violation

[Ilkka Ollakka]

Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 09:42:46PM +0300, Fatih Uzunoğlu kirjoitti:
> Hello,
>

Hi,

> 
> I would like to report Prince Gupta (@jagannatharjun) for potential Code of
> Conduct violation regarding his comment where he accused me of "demeaning
> others" and engaging in so-called "d*ck measuring contests":
> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/merge_requests/5864#note_451556.
> 
> change. I commented with "It is pretty obvious that this merge request has
> never been tested properly. It deserves to be nominated as the worst merge
> request since ...", because I believe that we have higher standards than

If you check the videolan CoC (https://wiki.videolan.org/Code_of_Conduct/) you 
notice the 2nd points being 'be careful with direct criticism'.

I think you crossed that with your initial comment already.

> Some might blame me for taking a direct approach of expressing my
> dissatisfaction in such a manner. I believe that if something is bad, we
> should say that it is bad otherwise it is never going to be fixed. And the
> means of expression or tone of feedback should be proportional to the cause.

You can give feedback in so many ways that can be way more constructive,
even if it may be frustrating.

> I'm not saying that the author should be punished, even though if an
> engineer causes collapse of a bridge due to his own fault he would (and
> should) be accountable for that mistake in court, but the author definitely
> owes a public apology to the whole team if a small change causes a lot of
> regressions due to lack of attention.

You already took the punisher role to yourself here


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