We have received complaints from multiple people that the conduct of Kanstantsin Shautsou (also known in the community as “KostyaSha”) has repeatedly overstepped the threshold of what is generally accepted as being “good conduct” in an open-source community.
I have personally witnessed some of them as they have happened for more than half a year, and a number of people, including myself, had private conversations with him about the matter. As additional complaints have come in despite all those efforts, the board feels we have no options but to formally launch an investigation to look into this. We are approaching several prominent contributors in the community to join us to form a committee in order to look into this from all angles. Once we receive confirmations from them, we will share their names. While we have not formally adopted any code of conduct, our governance document <https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Governance+Document#GovernanceDocument-Lowerbarrierofentry> does lay out the vision of the community we thrive to be. This project derives a lot of power from constant influx of contributors, and maintaining a healthy and respectful environment is of utmost importance. The board will refrain from going into the details of the matter in a public forum to avoid a public circus, and the committee will not publicly discuss the matter for the same reason. If you have inputs to the matter, please send them to [email protected], and we will pass them all on to the committee. I’m hoping that the committee will come to a resolution in a week or so. We’ll publish the resolution when it concludes. I do not take a step like this lightly, and I do this with a heavy heart. However, given the duration in which this has been going on, the number of people impacted, and the failed attempts to resolve this issue less formally, I feel it is a duty of the board to act on the situation. The situation also shows that the project needs to formally bless a code of conduct. I’m going to work with Daniel Beck to propose one for us, and we will take it to the developers mailing list and project meeting for the discussion. -- Kohsuke Kawaguchi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAN4CQ4z_X-Jcpvxz_%3DVV085XKJNZhodREf1tZPHT-3Ge_wEEUA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
