Code of Conduct: we need one (… in parallel / in addition to HBR)

[Denver Gingerich]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 10:19:29AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at ebb.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm curious if folks have a particular CoC template that they particularly
> > like and think would be good for copyleft-next?
> >
> > I did some poking around and discussion with colleagues well-versed in this
> > area, and frankly there is no clear standard, and I don't think (other than
> > the HBR addendum) that we should write our own from scratch.
> 
> I'm generally in favor of the Contributor Covenant
> (https://www.contributor-covenant.org/), although it's been long
> enough since I had to think about it that I don't remember any
> particular details of what I liked or disliked about it. Fedora's
> "new" (it's been several years now) code of conduct is largely based
> on it, with some modifications, and it has served well.

The Contributor Covenant is also what we at Soprani.ca (the umbrella that includes JMP) have adopted: https://soprani.ca/code-of-conduct/

We admittedly are not well-versed in this area, but our research suggested this was a fairly solid initial approach.

Denver
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