Code of Conduct (based on Contributor Covenant 3.0) for copyleft-next goes into effect within a week; final comments *now* please

[Bradley M. Kühn]

While it took a 6+ year trajectory to solve all this 😬:

Waaay back in April 2019, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > I want to weigh in to support adopting a Code of Conduct, preferably
> > not one we write ourselves.

Richard Fontana replied waaaay back then:
> This is also my inclination. The Contributor Covenant is far from
> perfect but it has become a de facto standard.

More than six years later (July 2025), I wrote:
>>> I otherwise like the Contributor Covenant.  I just don't think
>>> it's a good idea for various reasons for Richard or me to enforce
>>> the CoC, and I note the Contributor Covenant says that "Community
>>> Leaders" are responsible for enforcement. 🤔

Ben Cotton replied back then:
>> Can you say more about your concerns here?

I answered:
>>> TL;DR is: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
>>> in English: “Who watches the watchers themselves?”

(i.e., we need folks involved with the project tangentially, but not
 core leaders of the project like me and Richard.)

Richard agreed — saying last July:
> The main concern I have with me and bkuhn enforcing the CoC is that
> we need some mechanism to subject ourselves to the CoC too,

Richard noted further (again, last year):
> … [how can we find someone] who is not too closely tied to the
> project to avoid conflict of interest but who cares enough about
> the project to be responsive [though]

I can now announce with confidence that three such people have been
found, and we are *mere days away* from having a Code of Conduct for
copyleft-next! 🥳

I now ask everyone here to please review the following — which shows
the changeset we'll apply on top of the template “Contributor
Covenant 3.0 Code of Conduct”:
https://git.copyleft.org/copyleft-next/code-of-conduct/pulls/1

You are welcome to give you comments here on the mailing list, or as
a comment¹ on that pull request on git.c.o (as you prefer).

There are placeholders in the pull request for the three people who
will comprise the committee.  I have found three excellent volunteers
that meet the criteria we've been discussing on this list for years.

The last of the three is not available this week, so they haven't had
a chance to review my final patchset and confirm.  But once the last
one does, I'll update the pull request with *all* three names.  At
that point, I'll move it from WIP for a few days — ask here for any
final comments — then (likely) merge it in and make it the official
Code of Conduct for the copyleft-next project at that point.

So, this is a first and last call for comments.  This should be
uncontroversial given we've all had six years to gestate on this. 🤣


¹ Please email me off-list changing the subject line to
  “URGENT: git.copyleft.org account” to request a git.copyleft.org
  account.  (We've not had a chance to better automate account
  creation but all who are on this list are welcome to have accounts
  but I gotta do it manually for the moment.)
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