[ruby-core:73569] Re: [Ruby trunk - Misc #12004] Code of Conduct

Daniel:

Codes of conduct don’t exist to punish, believe it or not. They exist to
help project maintainers act *fairly* when behaviours go *off the rails*.
Sometimes those behaviours are always unacceptable (direct threats against
individuals, as an example—in this thread, the posting of anti-Semitic
materials would *definitely* qualify). Sometimes those behaviours are best
treated as a failure due to ignorance which should result in stern warnings
*with* an educational approach. And yes, sometimes those behaviours will be
pure misunderstanding because of the multinational/multilingual nature of
the wider Ruby community.

A good code of conduct recognizes these cases and provides guidance for
project maintainers and community managers so that there can be
clarification, education, and/or expulsion as appropriate to the nature of
the offence.

For those who want CoCs that don’t include the consideration of behaviour
outside of the Ruby “spaces”. While I am sympathetic to not wanting random
thoughts to be used to exclude me from a group, it may be appropriate to
use non-“space” behaviours and evidence to help classify such behaviour. I
present a thought experiment based on a particularly unsavoury individual,
DV (often better known as R— V). If he were to all of a sudden show up in a
Ruby “space”, there would be a lot of concern by people because this person
is extremely hostile to women. IMO, the adjudication of any claim of
harassment by DV would need to consider DV’s history of hostility toward
women *even though it happened outside of a Ruby “space”* precisely because
it would inform whether this is a misunderstanding, ignorance, or
unacceptable (and yes, his history is such that it would pretty much land
on unacceptable).

-a

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:14 PM, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Issue #12004 has been updated by Daniel P. Clark.
>
>
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > OK, that's enough.
> >
> > We will set up some form of CoC in the future. Let me think for a while
> which one we are going to choose.
> >
> > Matz.
>
> Thank you Matz for letting us know.
>
> Something I'd like people to keep in mind is that a majority of people
> will contribute to projects without first reading any conduct guidelines.
> So I encourage the assumption of good intent first, and possible ignorance
> second, before any action is considered a violation.
>
> If any remark seems to offend you then I ask that you first ask for
> clarification and intent behind the remark before assuming ill intent.  As
> is seen in this very thread when people speak in a language that is not
> their native language things can be misconstrued.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Misc #12004: Code of Conduct
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004#change-56771
>
> * Author: Coraline Ada Ehmke
> * Status: Assigned
> * Priority: Normal
> * Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
> ----------------------------------------
> 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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