I mean, I like openbsd the product, but the community culture is notoriously terrible and unwelcoming to newbies.
replyI find it just the opposite. I can think of few communities nearly as patient or welcoming to anyone who's earnest and willing to put in the work to learn; true, there's no coddling or hand-holding, and, indeed, it tends to be very direct in calling out foolishness or laziness, and can reach epic proportions when it comes to dishonesty or entitlement, but nothing which can't be processed by emotional maturity, nor the gratuitous pedanticism-fueled browbeating often seen in some I-use-foo-btw open-source communities despite their shiny CoCs.
reply> I find it just the opposite. I can think of few communities nearly as patient or welcoming to anyone who's earnest and willing to put in the work to learn; true, there's no coddling or hand-holding, and, indeed, it tends to be very direct in calling out foolishness or laziness,
replyThat’s nearly the exact opposite of welcoming newbies.
To be perfectly honest, that’s fine: OpenBSD demands a steep learning curve and that you know what you’re doing.
OpenBSD has a "netiquette" doc for its mailing lists: https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
replyNot sure if you want to count it as a "code of conduct", but it certainly defines rules on how to communicate and contribute to the project.
I'd count it as one in the general sense I'd count the style(9) manpage as another, not in the specific sense I indicated I was referring to:
reply> ... fine without a code of conduct — in the sense bakugo employed "code of conduct," not in the generalized sense ...