w00t :)
On 11/18/2014 3:53 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> As many of you are no doubt aware, we have had on our website, for at
> least 8 years, and, I think probably much longer, "Code of conduct,
> coming soon!" Long enough, in fact, that I had completely forgotten
> about it.
>
> It was brought to my attention this morning, and I decided,
> unilaterally, that it was appropriate for me to JFDI, and that I'd ask
> for forgiveness rather than permission.
>
> I have stolen, wholesale, the code of conduct of the CouchDB project [1]
> which has discussed this extensively, and borrowed heavily from other
> communities that have discussed it extensively. So this isn't original
> content, but, rather, standing on the shoulders of giants.
>
> I honestly can't figure out why we didn't just do this years ago, other
> than expecting that someone else would.
>
> So, without further ado:
> http://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html
>
> Patches welcome.
>
> I've also asked Noah Slater, who was very instrumental in crafting that
> document, to speak up here, so that:
>
> * Patches to one document will propagate to the other, where appropriate
> * ComDev can have a boilerplate document that we can recommend that ASF
> projects that don't have such a code, can adopt
>
> Please do speak up if you have any objections to my taking this
> initiative without discussion. But we've been discussing it, on and off,
> for many, many years.
>
> [1] http://couchdb.apache.org/conduct.html
>
