Here's the ASF code as a starting point:
https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html

Was the nature of these incidents covered by that?

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 06:02 Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> We have had a couple of incidents now of what can be interpreted as
> misbehavior.  There has been room for interpretation as to whether it
> actually was misbehavior.  There will almost always *be* room for
> interpretation.  Sometimes this will be by design, and sometimes it will be
> accidental.
>
> We are approaching an emotional topic, and we can expect people to feel and
> express anger, disappointment, frustration, confusion, and more.  But we
> also hope to talk to and convince people who are afraid, hurt, sad,
> jealous, and more.  The latter is true both for people who we've had
> trouble including in our communities, and among those community members who
> may not see the need for diversity and inclusion work.
>
> We need to talk about what are acceptable ways to express our feelings on
> our lists, and we need to find ways to talk about it when our boundaries
> are crossed or when we believe others are being mistreated.  We need to be
> able to do this without limiting our ability to approach difficult topics
> and exchange unpopular opinions and unpleasant facts.
>
> Social contracts without consequences cannot succeed.  So we will also need
> to talk about what consequences we wish to apply when a participant
> repeatedly and willfully crosses boundaries.  We need some of those
> consequences to be low-key, and even loving, because otherwise we will
> hesitate to apply them until a conversation has already left the rails.
> But we also need at least one tool in our toolbox for removing the
> (vanishingly rare) "true villain" who wants us to fail, and is actively
> working to undermine us.
>
> I believe we will need different standards for our different lists
> (private@diversity, dev@diversity, diversity@).  On diversity@ I'm willing
> to be very tolerant, because it is a sort of "user" list.  On private@ I
> expect us to keep traffic as low as possible, regardless of content.  So
> what I'm most interested in talking about right now is CoC and enforcement
> specifically on our working list: dev@diversity.  But our other lists will
> come up in this conversation too.
>
> Best Regards,
> Myrle
>
> 1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
> 2.) "When hawks give rise to doves: The evolution and transition of
> enforcement strategies"
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3675804/
> 3.) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38323-7
>

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