On 11/18/2014 09:46 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > >> At first glance, a big +1. This is one of the better Code of Conduct >> policies that I've seen. >> >> >> -- >> Christopher L Tubbs II >> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii >> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >> >>> As many of you are no doubt aware, we have had on our website, for at >>> least 8 years, and, I think probably much longer, "Code of conduct, >> coming >>> soon!" Long enough, in fact, that I had completely forgotten about it. >>> >>> It was brought to my attention this morning, and I decided, unilaterally, >>> that it was appropriate for me to JFDI, and that I'd ask for forgiveness >>> rather than permission. >>> >>> I have stolen, wholesale, the code of conduct of the CouchDB project [1] >>> which has discussed this extensively, and borrowed heavily from other >>> communities that have discussed it extensively. So this isn't original >>> content, but, rather, standing on the shoulders of giants. >>> >>> I honestly can't figure out why we didn't just do this years ago, other >>> than expecting that someone else would. >>> >>> So, without further ado: http://www.apache.org/ >>> foundation/policies/conduct.html >>> >>> Patches welcome. >> > > I'd like a section like the following (Debian Code of Conduct) to be added: > > "Serious or persistent offenders will be temporarily or permanently > banned from communicating through Debian's systems. Complaints should be > made (in private) to the administrators of the Debian communication > forum in question. To find contact information for these administrators, > please see [the page on Debian's organizational > structure](https://www.debian.org/intro/organization)" > > In absence of such a notice people might not understand what happen if > they do not play by the rules. > > Roberto >
Super that we now have an ASF-wide policy on this! and +1 on Roberto's suggestion. > > > >>> >>> I've also asked Noah Slater, who was very instrumental in crafting that >>> document, to speak up here, so that: >>> >>> * Patches to one document will propagate to the other, where appropriate >>> * ComDev can have a boilerplate document that we can recommend that ASF >>> projects that don't have such a code, can adopt >>> >>> Please do speak up if you have any objections to my taking this >> initiative >>> without discussion. But we've been discussing it, on and off, for many, >>> many years. >>> >>> [1] http://couchdb.apache.org/conduct.html >>> >>> -- >>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >>> >> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
