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From:   fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To:     Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
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Subject: Re: Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.
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Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> writes:

> [...]  The goal of the code of conduct is to make the community
> welcoming, and to help people with being a part of the Linux
> community.  [...]

That may well be the goal.  But the proper way to evaluate policy is not
the laudability of its goals but its forseeable and/or actual effects.
Is there any plan to evaluate the CoC empirically somehow to see if it
accomplishes what its proponents hope?

- FChE