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I just watched this talk by Mike Hoye (of Mozilla): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM_jAWV1LUs#t=2890 In the linked part, he made the point that it's important to have a code of conduct that describes how people in the community should interact. I saw that there were two bugs about the code of conduct for EclipseCon (bug 245309 and bug 424969), but I couldn't find anything related to participation in Eclipse projects. Did I miss it? If not, should Eclipse maybe have such a document? Thoughts? Some examples from other organizations: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct
(In reply to Robin Stocker from comment #0) > In the linked part, he made the point that it's important to have a code of > conduct that describes how people in the community should interact. I am willing to be convinced otherwise, if there are some that feel we need this. But my immediate reaction is "...if it ain't broke, don't fix it". In my experience, the conversations at Eclipse have always been professional.
(In reply to Mike Milinkovich from comment #1) > But my immediate reaction is "...if it ain't broke, don't fix it". How would you know if it's broken though? And why do you think it's necessary for EclipseCon but not for the community in general? > In my experience, the conversations at Eclipse have always been professional. Maybe you should do more bug triaging then ;).
(In reply to Robin Stocker from comment #2) > > In my experience, the conversations at Eclipse have always been professional. > > Maybe you should do more bug triaging then ;). Interesting. Could you point me to some examples of what you consider inappropriate behavior on our mailing lists, bugzilla, etc.?
Robin, Two guidelines that I've seen lately that seem along the lines you're referring to are: http://opensource.org/codeofconduct/licensing http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Contributor_Reference#Communication Are these similar to what you're thinking of?
Interesting to see that the Apache Software Foundation has published a Code of Conduct. http://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html
(In reply to Mike Milinkovich from comment #3) > (In reply to Robin Stocker from comment #2) > > > In my experience, the conversations at Eclipse have always been professional. > > > > Maybe you should do more bug triaging then ;). > > Interesting. Could you point me to some examples of what you consider > inappropriate behavior on our mailing lists, bugzilla, etc.? It's mostly been bug reporters typing in all caps and stuff like that. Nothing serious, although it would still be good to be prepared for that.
(In reply to Mike Milinkovich from comment #4) > Are these similar to what you're thinking of? Yes. From a cursory look, the Apache one looks to be the clearest to me.
(In reply to Robin Stocker from comment #7) > (In reply to Mike Milinkovich from comment #4) > > Are these similar to what you're thinking of? > > Yes. From a cursory look, the Apache one looks to be the clearest to me. +1 the Apache code of conduct looks good
Adding Chris Aniszczyk to the cc list. He was recently re-elected to the Board as a Committer rep, and having a code of conduct was part of his election platform. See https://www.eclipse.org/org/elections/candidate.php?year=2015&id=aniszczyk
I'll drive this at the board/community level. I agree that it's about time we have this, we've been working on creating a reusable code of conduct at the TODO Group and we can potentially use that. Give me a bit of time to come up with plan.
This is now done and approved by the board, see this email from Mike: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-members-committers/msg00382.html Thanks everyone for being patient!
And here is the link to the Code of Conduct: https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Community_Code_of_Conduct.php
Created attachment 254782 [details] Rainbow-colored Eclipse logo (png) to promote Eclipse Code of Conduct
Created attachment 254783 [details] Rainbow-colored Eclipse logo (zipped SVG) to promote Eclipse Code of Conduct
Awesome! Posted the logo to the code of conduct page, and also used it for the tweet announcing it. Thanks very much.
Thanks :)
