Over the years, radare2 has grown and grown in terms of source code size, complexity, features, collaborations, community and more. As a result, it has become increasingly challenging to manage in a consistent manner.
There exist many different interpretations of problems and solutions.
What might make total sense to one community member may not make sense to others. The divergence of opinions and ideas can be great for creativity, collaboration and decision making and rules or conflicts shouldn't be an excuse to frustrate or make angry contributors.
However, this can also bring its own set of challenges, necessitating we work together to continue to build an evolving tool that the community embraces and extends. We wish to provide guidance to the r2 community (eg. GitHub issues, source code, online chats or conferences) about how we want to operate.
We wish to have a supportive community of kind people vibing together, connected by common interests, which are radare2 and software reverse engineering in general.
This does not limit to the conversations in our official chat servers, you can also talk about other things in the side channel.
We urge you to respect the personal boundaries of everyone in this community.
We don't want any form of hate or personal attacks in this community.
We understand that people make mistakes and sometimes don't even know what they're saying/doing. This is no excuse for intentional harassment, discriminatory, and abusive behavior.
Mild forms of trolling and non-discriminatory profanity is OK with us. Interact with each other as you'd interact with a friend, and it will be well.
We do not intend to act as policemen, judges, or legislators, and we don't want to act as enforcers either. We do not want such roles in the radare2 community, so we will not officially formulate any strict rules or penalties.
However, we will take action if necessary.