On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 12:53:04PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 30/03/21 11:08, Thomas Huth wrote: > > I've picked the Django Code of Conduct as a base, since it sounds rather > > friendly and still welcoming to me, but I'm open for other suggestions, > > too > > (but we should maybe pick one where the conflict resolution policy is > > separated from the CoC itself so that it can be better taylored to the > > requirements of the QEMU project) > > It turns out that the Django CoC is ultimately based on the Fedora CoC, > so I tried using https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > as an inspiration for what can be cut. Here is the outcome: > > ----- > The QEMU community is made up of a mixture of professionals and > volunteers from all over the world. Diversity is one of our strengths, > but it can also lead to communication issues and unhappiness. > To that end, we have a few ground rules that we ask people to adhere to. > > * Be welcoming. We are committed to making participation in this project > a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of level of > experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, > disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, > or nationality. > > * Be respectful. Not all of us will agree all the time. Disagreements, both > social and technical, happen all the time and the QEMU community is no > exception. When we disagree, we try to understand why. It is important that > we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively. Members of the > QEMU community should be respectful when dealing with other contributors as > well as with people outside the QEMU community and with users of QEMU. > > Harassment and other exclusionary behavior are not acceptable. A community > where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is neither welcoming nor > respectful. Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include: > > * The use of sexualized language or imagery > > * Personal attacks > > * Trolling or insulting/derogatory comments > > * Public or private harassment > > * Publishing other's private information, such as physical or electronic > addresses, without explicit permission > > This isn't an exhaustive list of things that you can't do. Rather, take > it in the spirit in which it's intended—a guide to make it easier to > be excellent to each other. > > This code of conduct applies to all spaces managed by the QEMU project. > This includes IRC, the mailing lists, the issue tracker, community > events, and any other forums created by the project team which the > community uses for communication. This code of conduct also applies > outside these spaces, when an individual acts as a representative or a > member of the project or its community.
I really don't like this last sentance. The qualifier ', when an individual acts as a representative or member...' is opening up a clear loophole to escape consequences under the QEMU CoC. Consider someone is kicked out from another project for violation of that project's CoC, that would also be considered a violation under QEMU's CoC. This qualifier is explicitly stating that the CoC violation in the other project has no bearing on whether that person can now start participating in QEMU. I think that's a bad mixed message we're sending there. It is especially poor if the victim from the other project is also a QEMU contributor. The wording Thomas' draft has In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may affect a person's ability to participate within them. doesn't require QEMU to take action. It just set a statement of intent that gives QEMU the freedom to evaluate whether it is reasonable to take action to protect its contributors, should a contributor wish to raise an issue that occurred outside QEMU. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
