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

[Ben Cotton]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 4:08 PM Vasileios Valatsos <me at aethrvmn.gr> wrote:
>
> Excuse me for the bluntness, but why? As in, who is this for? Also, in
> all honesty, who cares?
>
> It would seem to me that there is no point to pass a CoC since there is
> no conduct to regulate? It would make much more sense if there was any
> conduct apart from the list admins informing us of the need to regulate
> conduct.

I'm generally in favor of "wait to add policy/process until you need
it", but codes of conduct are an exception. It's easier to have a code
of conduct in place before you need it because CoC issues are often
high-emotion and inventing the process as you go leads to
community-harming missteps.

You're right that if the project activity doesn't pick up, then this
is for naught. Oh well.

-- 
Ben Cotton (he/him)
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis