From: duerst@...
Date: 2016-01-24T06:20:01+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:73349] [Ruby trunk - Misc #12004] Code of Conduct

Issue #12004 has been updated by Martin D��rst.


Andrew Vit wrote:

> Will the CoC require that there is a 24/7 hotline and SLA too?
> 
> "Community standards only enforced during local standard business hours."
> https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/690619432675123200

Some clarifications:
- Many maintainer actions on this very thread were taken before the start of business in Japan, or on a Saturday.
- Maintainers are volunteers. During business hours, they probably work on their day jobs. So the chance that some moderator action happens during business hours may actually be lower than during some other times of the day.
- The earth rotates, and the sun shines at different times in different parts of the world. Therefore people tend to wake and sleep at different times. This is (mildly put) difficult to change.
- I don't know any open source projects that promise or guarantee 24/7 addressing of issues, be it social issues or technical issues. I haven't yet seen any CoC promising something like this, for obvious reasons.



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Misc #12004: Code of Conduct
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004#change-56577

* Author: Coraline Ada Ehmke
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
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I am the creator of the Contributor Covenant, a code of conduct for Open Source projects. At last count there are over 13,000 projects on Github that have adopted it. This past year saw adoption of Contributor Covenant by a lot of very large, very visible projects, including Rails, Github's Atom text editor, Angular JS, bundler, curl, diaspora, discourse, Eclipse, rspec, shoes, and rvm. The bundler team made code of conduct integration an option in the gem creation workflow, putting it on par with license selection. Many open source language communities have already adopted the code of conduct, including Elixir, Mono, the .NET foundation, F#, and Apple's Swift. RubyTogether also adopted a policy to only fund Ruby projects that had a solid code of conduct in place.

Right now in the PHP community there is a healthy debate about adopting the Contributor Covenant. Since it came from and has been so widely adopted by the Ruby community at large, I think it's time that we consider adopting it for the core Ruby language as well.

Our community prides itself on niceness. What a code of conduct does is define what we mean by nice. It states clearly that we value openness, courtesy, and compassion. That we care about and want contributions from people who may be different from us. That we pledge to respect all contributors regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or other factors. And it makes it clear that we are prepared to follow through on these values with action when and if an incident arises.

I'm asking that we join with the larger Ruby community in supporting the adoption of the Contributor Covenant for the Ruby language. I think that this will be an important step forward and will ensure the continued welcoming and supportive environment around Ruby. You can read the full text of the Contributor Covenant at http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/3/0/ and learn more at http://contributor-covenant.org/. 

Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.


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