On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > ASF has an official Code of Conduct[1]. It is my understanding that each > community can decide to adopt the CoC to its own project (or to create its > own variation). > > The CoC doesn't have an official escalation policy - ie what happens > if/when someone break the policy. In my opinion it is a weakness since the > handling may be a bit arbitrary from time to time, but I think we should > leave that until the ASF has a clear framework which we can tie into. > > I'm proposing that Subversion adopt the ASF official CoC and link to it on > our website. To implement this, I propose a new section in HACKING, > probably under the General Overview document. > > I don't see that it will be any change in practice - we should already > live by the standards in the CoC for example "Be empathetic, welcoming, > friendly, and patient". > > Cheers, > Daniel > > [1] https://apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html > Sure, I'd support that. I think it's a well-written, well-thought-out Code of Conduct. It covers things that are already part of our practices, such as public communication (unless discussing something sensitive), not posting private communications publicly without permission, etc. As for the rest, if I had to sum it up in only a few words: be professional and treat others as you'd like to be treated. That's how we should strive to be, right? Linking to it is easy. I'd probably: * add a link called "Code of Conduct" on the site sidebar under "About the ASF" and, * in HACKING, as a new last sentence in the subsection "Participating in the community" [1]. It could be as simple as "Please see the Code of Conduct" as a link. That would follow nicely from what's already there. Adopting it: I would assume that the ASF's Code of Conduct applies to us by default, unless we adopt our own separate Code of Conduct. Nevertheless, there should probably be an official act of the PMC with a [VOTE]. I hope to see additional feedback in this thread... [1] https://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general.html#participating Cheers, Nathan
