In an ideal world, we would all get along together very well, always be
polite and never end up in huge conflicts. And even if there are conflicts,
we would always handle each other fair and respectfully. Unfortunately,
this is not an ideal world and sometimes people forget how to interact with
each other in a professional and respectful way. Fortunately, this seldom
happens in the QEMU community, but for such rare cases it is preferrable
to have a basic code of conduct document available to show to people
who are misbehaving. In case that does not help yet, we should also have
a conflict resolution policy ready that can be applied in the worst case.
The Code of Conduct document tries to be short and to the point while
trying to remain friendly and welcoming; it is based on the Fedora Code
of Conduct[1] with extra detail added based on the Contributor Covenant
1.3.0[2]. Other proposals included the Contributor Covenant 1.3.0 itself
or the Django Code of Conduct[3] (which is also a derivative of Fedora's)
but, in any case, there was agreement on keeping the conflict resolution
policy separate from the CoC itself.
An important point is whether to apply the code of conduct to violations
that occur outside public spaces. The text herein restricts that to
individuals acting as a representative or a member of the project or
its community. This is intermediate between the Contributor Covenant
(which only mentions representatives of the community, for example using
an official project e-mail address or posting via an official social media
account), and the Django Code of Conduct, which says that violations of
this code outside these spaces "may" be considered but otherwise applies
no limit.
The conflict resolution policy is based on the Drupal Conflict Resolution
Policy[4] and its derivative, the Mozilla Consequence Ladder[5].
[1] https://www.fedoraproject.com/code-of-conduct/
[2] https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/3/0/code-of-conduct/
[3] https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/
[4] https://www.drupal.org/conflict-resolution
[5] https://github.com/mozilla/diversity/blob/master/code-of-conduct-enforcement/consequence-ladder.md
Co-developed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
