Late to this thread, but huge +1 from me. Thanks Rich!! I have some additional things to contribute, but I'll start new threads for them soon enough! (Feel free to nudge me if I seem to have forgotten.)
On 18 November 2014 at 14:53, 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'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 -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
