[Numpy-discussion] Adoption of a Code of Conduct (original) (raw)

Ralf Gommers ralf.gommers at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 14:48:05 EDT 2018

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

Given Jupyter, numpy, scipy, matplotlib?, etc, are all working on a CoC -- maybe we could have NumFocus take a lead on this for the whole community? Nelle is right about the process and community buy-in.

or adopt an existing one, like maybe: The Contributor Covenant <http://www.contributor-covenant.org/> was adopted by several prominent open source projects, including Atom, AngularJS, Eclipse, and even Rails. According to Github, total adoption of the Contributor Covenant is nearing an astounding ten thousand open source projects.

The tone of the Contributor Covenant is far from good. All of this and more was extensively discussed when introducing the SciPy CoC. Can you please read the mailing list discussion on scipy-dev before suggesting a major change in direction?

Also keep in mind that the SciPy and NumPy communities strongly overlap, and everyone was okay with the SciPy CoC. We're discussing one tweak to that; removing two words or adding 1-2 sentences. It is counter-productive to start from scratch.

Cheers, Ralf

I'm trying to figure out why numpy (Or any project, really) has either unique needs or people better qualified to write a CoC than any other project or community. So much like OSS licences -- it's much better to pick an established one than write your own. For the record, the Covenant does have a laundry list of "classes", that does not include political belief, but does mention "political" here: """ Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include: ... Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks ... """ -CHB

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