[llvm-dev] RFC: Introducing an LLVM Community Code of Conduct

[Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev]

> > As long as the committee remains unimportant, things will be fine.
> > As soon as the committee becomes important, the LLVM project has already
> > degenerated into a snake pit, and is likely to fork anyway.
> 
> This sounds like an oxymoron, as if this policy only makes sense if
> the non-representative foundation never tries to enforce it in a way
> that the community doesn't accept. And if it does, the rest will flee.
> Personally, I think this is a very unstable situation.

I read that as "if the committee has to engage in an enforcement action
more than very rarely, then the community has already degenerated..."
Which is a sentiment I can fully agree with.
--paulr