[yt-dev] Adopting a code of conduct

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Fri Nov 6 11:28:56 PST 2015


Hi Nathan,

Personally, I'm definitely amenable!  I think we should start with the
one recently adopted by the yt project:

http://yt-project.org/community.html
http://ytep.readthedocs.org/en/latest/YTEPs/YTEP-0023.html

;-)

-Matt

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to start the ball rolling on instituting a code of conduct for the
> yt community. This will be added as a YTEP, linked from the "community"
> portion of the webpage, and added the the yt repository.
>
> Having a code of conduct is important because it the community norms we
> abide by very concrete. It also affirms our commitment to embracing
> diversity, openness, respect, and collegiality in our interactions. I think
> officially adopting a code of conduct also lowers the barrier to entry for
> new contributors who might be scared off based on preconceived notions about
> open source projects (e.g. the Linux kernel).
>
> I think a good place to start would be to use the Python Software
> Foundation's code of conduct and just replace "Python" with "The yt
> Project". I really like the PSF code of conduct and feel that it does a good
> job of describing how we conduct business already.
>
> I'm curious whether this is amenable to everyone. Are there other CoC
> documents that we should look at? Are there additional points we should add
> to or elide from the PSF CoC to make it more fitting for yt?
>
> Thanks for your input!
>
> -Nathan
>
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