Add a Contributor Code of Conduct

[pauliesnug]

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Contributor codes of conduct are very important to all open source projects as to avoid discriminatory practices. I feel that Hyprland could really use a Code of Conduct that may also apply to other Hyprland-related communities. See: GitHub's guide and the Contributor Covenant.

[pauliesnug]

@memchr If I may ask why you left a 👎 on the original issue? Many large projects use a COC.

[vaxerski]

as to avoid discriminatory practices

how?

[memchr]

@memchr If I may ask why you left a 👎 on the original issue? Many large projects use a COC.

@pauliesnug

No existing terms mandate any clarification, justification or additional elaboration on my part for

differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences

Thank you.

Best Regards.

[DashieTM]

CoC only makes sense when you can uphold it, hyprland is not maintained by a large organization, so it would not be feasible to do it.
Also CoC is great when many people have a major role in the project, this is not the case here.

[pauliesnug]

CoC only makes sense when you can uphold it, hyprland is not maintained by a large organization, so it would not be feasible to do it.
Also CoC is great when many people have a major role in the project, this is not the case here.

I feel that a COC could be easily enforced, seeing as we have a Hyprland discord server that is "moderated". I've noticed a lot of hate coming from this community to be honest and I feel that it could use a set of default rules.

[pauliesnug]

how?

Referencing the Contributor Covenant, it helps protect all contributors and members of the community as well as creating a healthy environment. See:

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our
community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender
identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status,
nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual
identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming,
diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

[burein-ita]

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our
community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender
identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status,
nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual
identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming,
diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

I think this is pretty discriminatory towards people that prefer a close, hostile, homogeneous, exclusive, and unhealthy community.

[vaxerski]

First of all, why would I pledge to uphold any values? Seems like just inconveniencing myself.

I've noticed a lot of hate coming from this community to be honest and I feel that it could use a set of default rules.

as if text will fix that. I am not able to enforce that CoC, neither do I want to. I just write code. If I'd want to moderate, I'd spend 90% of the time reading kids arguing about bullshit instead of coding.

I think this is pretty discriminatory towards people that prefer a close, hostile, homogeneous, exclusive, and unhealthy community.

Nice one

[memchr]

Does it have to be Contributor Covenant?

If there is a need for such contract, I hereby express my intention to vote in favour of the Code of Conduct Ethics established by the SQLite project.

[pauliesnug]

I think this is pretty discriminatory towards people that prefer a close, hostile, homogeneous, exclusive, and unhealthy community.

Who wants Hyprland to be an unhealthy community? That would just lead to the downfall of the code and the community.

[pauliesnug]

Does it have to be Contributor Covenant?

If there is a need for such contract, I hereby express my intention to vote in favour of the Code of Conduct Ethics established by the SQLite project.

SQLite's "code of ethics" goes against the entire idea of the Contributor Covenant. It's meant to discourage harassment and send a message to bad actors.

Also the entire idea of SQLite's code of ethics replacement was very very discriminatory towards LGBTQ+ people.

[vaxerski]

I think my comment here #3209 (comment) closes this issue.

If you don't know how to behave without a wall of text explaining how to behave online then you shouldn't be online.

[pauliesnug]

If you don't know how to behave without a wall of text explaining how to behave online then you shouldn't be online.

While I agree with you, many people in this community don't seem to know how to behave and thus there have been many instances of harassment. See https://fosstodon.org/@TheEvilSkeleton/109587658504727925

@vaxerski @fufexan

[vaxerski]

ignoring that feces of a post, it wasn't even on github. Furthermore, if anything, those allegations are against me and fuf, both of us are members of the org. Poor arguments.

[pauliesnug]

ignoring that feces of a post, it wasn't even on github. Furthermore, if anything, those allegations are against me and fuf, both of us are members of the org. Poor arguments.

Instead of attacking the post, could you provide some evidence against it? (e.g. say "Trans rights are human rights"). That's also why I noted that it "may also apply to other Hyprland-related communities." In a healthy community, the moderators and members of the org should be held to the same, if not a higher standard as the other contributors/community members.

[memchr]

Excuse me, are we still talking about the development of a wlroots-based Wayland composter?

As with all people, you are privileged to your own judgement and viewpoint. However, to allege that another who expresses their own opinion that disagrees with yours as attacking is a rather discourteous poor argument.

[pauliesnug]

Excuse me, are we still talking about the development of a wlroots-based Wayland composter?

As with all people, you are privileged to your own judgement and viewpoint. However, to allege that another who expresses their own opinion that disagrees with yours as attacking is a rather discourteous poor argument.

I simply presented evidence of harassment taking place within a Hyprland community. @vaxerski attacked the post itself, saying it was "feces", without providing any reason to dismiss the evidence. Albeit, attacking was not the correct word

[memchr]

I think it is reasonable to assume that decisions have already been made, because as you can see here, the issue has already been closed.

Continuing this thread may not lead to the desired result, so I would humbly suggest that you consider other measures instead of continuing to request the adoption of a code of conduct here on hyprwm/Hyprland.

For example, one action you can take is to create a fork of Hyprland that pledges to proactively and actively offer protection for all persons, whether human or non-human, sentient or unconscious, against prejudicial, pugnacious, belligerent or pernicious acts, including but not limited to: unlawful intimidation, infliction of emotional distress, defamation, discrimination, assault and battery, sexual or aggravated harassment, abuse or exploitation, regardless of the protected classes of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, species, national origin, culture, language, or other characteristics.
And to build a community that scrupulously adheres to the above standards, international laws, ethical principles of justice, equity, and non-violence.

In this way, you may attract more contributors who feel vulnerable in the current hyprland community and build a healthy competitive relationship with the original project.

Actions speak louder than words

[majestrate]

Who wants Hyprland to be an unhealthy community? That would just lead to the downfall of the code and the community.

One thing that makes community health decrease is making a github issue about mitigating a currently non present hypothetical social issue next to the over 450+ open issues of actual bug reports that you aren't fixing.

[pauliesnug]

In this way, you may attract more contributors who feel vulnerable in the current hyprland community and build a healthy competitive relationship with the original project.

Sounds good! I appriciate the free advertising :D

[Sectoid]

Contributor codes of conduct are very important

They are not. Go away.

[vaxerski]

locking, offtopic + heated

[vaxerski]

CoC MR: #3366