On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > In an ideal world, we would all get along together very well, always be > polite and never end up in huge conflicts. And even if there are conflicts, > we would always handle each other fair and respectfully. Unfortunately, > this is not an ideal world and sometimes people forget how to interact with > each other in a professional and respectful way. Fortunately, this seldom > happens in the QEMU community, but for such rare cases it is preferrable > to have a basic code of conduct document available to show to people > who are misbehaving. In case that does not help yet, we should also have > a conflict resolution policy ready that can be applied in the worst case. > > The Code of Conduct document tries to be short and to the point while > trying to remain friendly and welcoming; it is based on the Fedora Code > of Conduct[1] with extra detail added based on the Contributor Covenant > 1.3.0[2]. Other proposals included the Contributor Covenant 1.3.0 itself > or the Django Code of Conduct[3] (which is also a derivative of Fedora's) > but, in any case, there was agreement on keeping the conflict resolution > policy separate from the CoC itself. > > An important point is whether to apply the code of conduct to violations > that occur outside public spaces. The text herein restricts that to > individuals acting as a representative or a member of the project or > its community. This is intermediate between the Contributor Covenant > (which only mentions representatives of the community, for example using > an official project e-mail address or posting via an official social media > account), and the Django Code of Conduct, which says that violations of > this code outside these spaces "may" be considered but does not limit > this further.
Since this was derived from the Fedora CoC, you might be interested to know that Fedora is currently revisiting its CoC: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/policy-proposal-new-code-of-conduct/ The first comment on that post from mattdm gives clarity as to why they feel the need to revisit it Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
