Hey there BIND-users,

A few weeks ago I posted a message here asking for feedback about establishing 
some sort of guideline for behavior on this list. I suggested an email sent by 
Cathy Almond of ISC Technical support to this list a few years ago, asking for 
civility and patience.

A few people replied on-list, and several also replied directly to me. People 
expressed sadness that such a thing was necessary, but nobody voiced an 
objection. The upshot is, we have decided to adopt a formal Code of Conduct for 
this list, as well as for discussions on the BIND 9 Gitlab project site.  We 
looked at several well-known statements from other open source projects, and 
selected the one the Django project uses as our baseline. We have adapted it 
slightly and posted it in the BIND 9 Gitlab 
(https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md 
<https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>). I 
will also put a link to it in the information about this list on 
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/admin/bind-users/general 
<https://lists.isc.org/mailman/admin/bind-users/general>.  

We also added a page to our web site on how to report violations of the Code of 
Conduct (https://www.isc.org/conductreporting/ 
<https://www.isc.org/conductreporting/>). I hope we never have to use it, but 
we now have an explicit policy to refer to when moderating this list.

Regards,

Vicky Risk
Product Manager
Internet Systems Consortium
vi...@isc.org
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Text added to Information on this list:

This list is provided for the purpose of discussing the deployment and usage of 
BIND DNS software. Developers and contributors may solicit input from users 
here and users are welcome to ask for, and give help and advice here.

Participation on this list is governed by a Code of Conduct 
(https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md 
<https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>). If 
you believe that you are the target of behavior in violation of the Code of 
Conduct, please alert the list administrators rather than retaliating on the 
mailing list. Report these concerns to cond...@isc.org 
<mailto:cond...@isc.org>. Insulting and derogatory posts will not be tolerated 
and will result in future posts from those list members who are posting in this 
manner being held for moderation or suspended indefinitely from this community.

We should like to remind list users that irrespective of the basic levels of 
experience or knowledge of some of the posters here, that they are asking for 
community help and that advice should be given politely and with respect shown 
both towards the original poster and other contributors to a thread.

Please remember that:

- English is not the first language for all - this can lead to misunderstandings

- Beginners don't always 'get it' from the start (but with gentle guidance may 
become the experts of the future.)

- If you are seeking help debugging an active issue, don’t alter the domain 
name so that people can query it in order to advise you. This tends to 
frustrate your intended helpers. 






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