On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
> At first glance, a big +1. This is one of the better Code of Conduct > policies that I've seen. > > > -- > Christopher L Tubbs II > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> 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'd like a section like the following (Debian Code of Conduct) to be added: "Serious or persistent offenders will be temporarily or permanently banned from communicating through Debian's systems. Complaints should be made (in private) to the administrators of the Debian communication forum in question. To find contact information for these administrators, please see [the page on Debian's organizational structure](https://www.debian.org/intro/organization)" In absence of such a notice people might not understand what happen if they do not play by the rules. Roberto > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > >
