Misc #12004
Code of Conduct
説明
I am the creator of the Contributor Covenant, a code of conduct for Open Source projects. At last count there are over 13,000 projects on Github that have adopted it. This past year saw adoption of Contributor Covenant by a lot of very large, very visible projects, including Rails, Github's Atom text editor, Angular JS, bundler, curl, diaspora, discourse, Eclipse, rspec, shoes, and rvm. The bundler team made code of conduct integration an option in the gem creation workflow, putting it on par with license selection. Many open source language communities have already adopted the code of conduct, including Elixir, Mono, the .NET foundation, F#, and Apple's Swift. RubyTogether also adopted a policy to only fund Ruby projects that had a solid code of conduct in place.
Right now in the PHP community there is a healthy debate about adopting the Contributor Covenant. Since it came from and has been so widely adopted by the Ruby community at large, I think it's time that we consider adopting it for the core Ruby language as well.
Our community prides itself on niceness. What a code of conduct does is define what we mean by nice. It states clearly that we value openness, courtesy, and compassion. That we care about and want contributions from people who may be different from us. That we pledge to respect all contributors regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or other factors. And it makes it clear that we are prepared to follow through on these values with action when and if an incident arises.
I'm asking that we join with the larger Ruby community in supporting the adoption of the Contributor Covenant for the Ruby language. I think that this will be an important step forward and will ensure the continued welcoming and supportive environment around Ruby. You can read the full text of the Contributor Covenant at http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/3/0/ and learn more at http://contributor-covenant.org/.
Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
履歴
#1
Aaron Patterson が約8時間前に更新
If this makes people feel more comfortable to contribute to Ruby, then I am positive on it. I think we basically do this already, it's just not explicitly stated.
#2
Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene が約7時間前に更新
We (the vcr, hamster, and rubygems repositories) have a Contributor Covenant-based Code of Conduct for our repositories and I absolutely back this being added.
#3
André Arko が約7時間前に更新
This is probably already clear since Bundler adopted the Contributor Convenant for both the Bundler project and Bundler's gem generator, but I'd like to make it official: I'm in favor of this.
#4
Strand McCutchen が約7時間前に更新
I strongly support adopting a code of conduct to signal to newcomers that Ruby is a welcoming and inclusive community.
#5
Hiroshi SHIBATA が約7時間前に更新
- トラッカー を Bug から Misc に変更
- 担当者 を Yukihiro Matsumoto にセット
- ステータス を Open から Assigned に変更
#6
B Kelly が約7時間前に更新
Please, no.
I'm utterly opposed to this sort of policing of language. (Apart from the anti-doxxing
prohibition, which I'd support.)
I don't think noises made by the perpetually offended should warrant special consideration
(rather more the opposite.)
For a glimpse at the motives behind the seemingly innocuous Contributor Covenant, notice
how its author attempts to censure a developer on an open source project, for the
thoughtcrime of having an opinion on twitter, completely unrelated to the project:
https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
The following interview contains some thoughts by Eric S. Raymond and Meredith Patterson
on this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI53yys3dbA&feature=youtu.be&t=538
Given a choice between only two extremes, I'd far rather have Linus Torvalds telling me
I'm an idiot and my code is shit, then exist in an offense-taking culture where various
forms of criticism are re-branded as "harassment."
Finally, in purely pragmatic terms regarding Ruby development: Why fix what isn't broken?
Thanks for your consideration,
Bill
#7
Eric Wong が約3時間前に更新
coraline@idolhands.com wrote:
I'm asking that we join with the larger Ruby community in supporting
the adoption of the Contributor Covenant for the Ruby language.
I am against this, we don't have this problem in Ruby itself.
And the Code of Conduct language is too easily twisted for personal
vendettas.
For example, I only use Free Software and was groomed to distrust
centralization and monopolies from an early age.
So, I've felt threatened and offended when people expect me to:
- run anything I can't reasonably audit (e.g. JavaScript or GUI stack)
- agree to a Terms-of-Service
Maybe I could invoke a Code of Conduct to force maintainers of
Ruby projects to stop requesting contributions via GitHub
(because it requires JS + ToS which I find offensive).
Of course, I won't do that.
Instead, I tell people straight up what I won't do. Often they'll
accept my contributions via email because they want my help;
otherwise I ignore them.
On the flip side; I am labeled as "unprofessional" for sticking to my
beliefs when I refuse to buckle.
I think that this will be an important step forward and will ensure the
continued welcoming and supportive environment around Ruby.
I've never once felt my beliefs were welcome around Ruby; maybe barely
tolerated, but never welcome. But I'm here anyways (several years, now)
with no plans to leave.
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