[paulvnickerson]

They should take a cue from sqlite and just adopt the Rule of St Benedict.

[accrual]

Here's the official document: https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

[Macha]

sqlite contributors are a closed group, while NixOS is a project open to contributors. It's a lot easier for 3 people to avoid conflict than 300.

[alexey-salmin]

From experience it seems that the best way to avoid conflict is to quickly ban anyone who demands a CoC

[actuallyalys]

It's also easier for a small, closed group to keep their conflicts private.

[zahlman]

Funny you should mention that. Meanwhile over in the Ruby camp, where they've been trying to gather signatures to run DHH out on a rail (pun intended), someone submitted a PR to replace the entire "open letter" with that document. (It was of course promptly rejected as a troll, which it was, but I was still amused.)