Hi, folks, At our board face-to-face meeting in Bratislava last weekend, the topic of a code of conduct was raised. Without getting into all of the historical confusion around our code of conduct, I have a proposal for a working group:
TL;DR: We should create a recommended template Code of Conduct that projects could tweak and adopt. Background: Many ASF projects do not have a code of conduct, and push this up to the Foundation. This mostly seems to work, in practice, most of the time, but the public *perception* is just that they don’t have one. Meanwhile, the ASF Code of Conduct - https://apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html - lacks a specific escalation path, and doesn’t leave room for project-specific processes. Proposal: The Code of Conduct working group will be a outcome-focused[1] effort to start with the Contributor Covenant V 2.1 [2] and turn it into a template which ASF project could adopt as-is, or make small tweaks to for their specific project. This task consists of several steps: 0) Create a section under https://github.com/apache/comdev-working-groups 1) Edit the CCv2.1 to put ASF-specific language in (PMC, Project, Board, etc) 2) Identify sections that need to be updated/altered to reflect the ASF way of doing things. Eg, Clarify the Scope section for ASF norms, and work out the escalation path for when/if a project wishes to escalate a complaint to the Foundation. (Which would require understanding and working with the existing process, so that we are not creating new work for the folks that already do that work.) 3) Run it by a few projects and see what they think 4) Provide it as a template on community.apache.org <http://community.apache.org/> as a proposed/suggested template. What this isn’t: This is NOT an effort to create a committee that would impose and/or enforce community of codes on various projects, or at the Foundation level. Any effort to turn it into that will be … unpopular. To say the least. Next steps: If anyone is interested in doing this work with me, please jump in and get started. I do plan to spend some time on this in the coming weeks, but won’t have time to get started on it until next week at the very earliest. But don’t feel that you have to wait for me if you are interested in the topic. —Rich [1] By outcome-focused, what I mean is that it has a specific task, which, upon completion, the WG would dissolve [2] https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/code_of_conduct.md — Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com
