Guidelines

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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+# Polkawallet Code of Conduct
+
+Like the technical community as a whole, the Polkawallet team and community is made up of a mixture of professionals and volunteers from all over the world, working on every aspect of the mission - including mentorship, teaching, and connecting people.
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+Diversity is one of our huge strengths, but it can also lead to communication issues and unhappiness. To that end, we have a few ground rules that we ask people to adhere to. This code applies equally to founders, mentors and those seeking help and guidance.
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+This isn’t an exhaustive list of things that you can’t do. Rather, take it in the spirit in which it’s intended - a guide to make it easier to enrich all of us and the technical communities in which we participate.
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+This code of conduct applies to all spaces managed by the Polkawallet project or Polkawallet Software Foundation. In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may affect a person's ability to participate within them.
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+If you believe someone is violating the code of conduct, we ask that you report it by emailing conduct@polkawallet.io. For more details please see our Reporting Guidelines
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+- **Be friendly and patient.**
+- **Be welcoming.** We strive to be a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to members of any race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, colour, immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability.
+- **Be considerate.** Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn will depend on the work of others. Any decision you take will affect users and colleagues, and you should take those consequences into account when making decisions. Remember that we're a world-wide community, so you might not be communicating in someone else's primary language.
+- **Be respectful.** Not all of us will agree all the time, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. Members of the Polkawallet community should be respectful when dealing with other members as well as with people outside the Polkawallet community.
+- **Be careful in the words that you choose.** We are a community of professionals, and we conduct ourselves professionally. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren't acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to:
+  - Violent threats or language directed against another person.
+  - Discriminatory jokes and language.
+  - Posting sexually explicit or violent material.
+  - Posting (or threatening to post) other people's personally identifying information ("doxing").
+  - Personal insults, especially those using racist or sexist terms.
+  - Unwelcome sexual attention.
+  - Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.
+  - Repeated harassment of others. In general, if someone asks you to stop, then stop.
+- **When we disagree, try to understand why. **Disagreements, both social and technical, happen all the time and Polkawallet is no exception. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively. Remember that we’re different. The strength of Polkawallet comes from its varied community, people from a wide range of backgrounds. Different people have different perspectives on issues. Being unable to understand why someone holds a viewpoint doesn’t mean that they’re wrong. Don’t forget that it is human to err and blaming each other doesn’t get us anywhere. Instead, focus on helping to resolve issues and learning from mistakes.
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+## Polkawallet Code of Conduct - Reporting Guide
+
+If you believe someone is violating the code of conduct we ask that you report it to the Polkawallet management by emailing conduct@polkawallet.io. **All reports will be kept confidential.** In some cases we may determine that a public statement will need to be made. If that's the case, the identities of all victims and reporters will remain confidential unless those individuals instruct us otherwise.
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+**If you believe anyone is in physical danger, please notify appropriate law enforcement first.** If you are unsure what law enforcement agency is appropriate, please include this in your report and we will attempt to notify them.
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+If you are unsure whether the incident is a violation, or whether the space where it happened is covered by this Code of Conduct, we encourage you to still report it. We would much rather have a few extra reports where we decide to take no action, rather than miss a report of an actual violation. We do not look negatively on you if we find the incident is not a violation. And knowing about incidents that are not violations, or happen outside our spaces, can also help us to improve the Code of Conduct or the processes surrounding it.
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+In your report please include:
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+- Your contact info (so we can get in touch with you if we need to follow up)
+- Names (real, nicknames, or pseudonyms) of any individuals involved. If there were other witnesses besides you, please try to include them as well.
+- When and where the incident occurred. Please be as specific as possible.
+- Your account of what occurred. If there is a publicly available record (e.g. a discussion area or a public issue logger) please include a link.
+- Any extra context you believe existed for the incident.
+- If you believe this incident is ongoing.
+- Any other information you believe we should have.
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+**What happens after you file a report?**
+You will receive an email from the Polkawallet management Code of Conduct Working Group acknowledging receipt immediately. We promise to acknowledge receipt within 24 hours (and will aim for much quicker than that).
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+The working group will immediately meet to review the incident and determine:
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+- What happened.
+- Whether this event constitutes a code of conduct violation.
+- Who the bad actor was.
+- Whether this is an ongoing situation, or if there is a threat to anyone's physical safety.
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+If this is determined to be an ongoing incident or a threat to physical safety, the working groups' immediate priority will be to protect everyone involved. This means we may delay an "official" response until we believe that the situation has ended and that everyone is physically safe.
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+Once the working group has a complete account of the events they will make a decision as to how to response. Responses may include:
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+- Nothing (if we determine no violation occurred).
+- A private reprimand from the working group to the individual(s) involved.
+- A public reprimand.
+- An imposed vacation (i.e. asking someone to "take a week off" from Polkawallet git organization).
+- A permanent or temporary ban from some or all Polkawallet spaces.
+- A request for a public or private apology.
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+We'll respond within one week to the person who filed the report with either a resolution or an explanation of why the situation is not yet resolved.
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+Once we've determined our final action, we'll contact the original reporter to let them know what action (if any) we'll be taking. We'll take into account feedback from the reporter on the appropriateness of our response, but we don't guarantee we'll act on it.
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+Finally, the Working Group will make a report on the situation to the Polkawallet management board. The board may choose to a public report of the incident.
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+----
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+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Django Code of Conduct](https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/), version `577a02bbe `available at <https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/blob/577a02bbe968de79f8e111d6139f0c1299e994e9/templates/conduct/index.html>

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+
+## What?
+
+Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to a project to contribute as they see fit. A project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project.
+
+## Rules
+
+There are a few basic ground-rules for contributors (including the maintainer(s) of the project):
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+1. **No --force pushes** or modifying the master branch history in any way. If you need to rebase, ensure you do it in your own repo.
+2. **Non-master branches**, prefixed with a short name moniker (e.g. `Dave-my-feature`) must be used for ongoing work.
+3. **All modifications** must be made in a **pull-request** to solicit feedback from other contributors.
+4. Contributors should adhere to the [Coding Style Guide](https://github.com/polkawallet-io/polkawallet-RN/blob/master/Style_Guide.md).
+
+## Merge Process
+
+1. A PR needs to be reviewed and approved by project maintainers unless:
+   - it does not alter any logic (e.g. comments, dependencies, docs), then it may be tagged [`insubstantial`](https://github.com/polkawallet-io/polkawallet-RN/labels/insubstantial) and merged by its author.
+   - it is an urgent fix with no large change to logic, then it may be merged after a non-author contributor has approved the review.
+2. Once a PR is ready for review please add the [`pleasereview`](https://github.com/polkawallet-io/polkawallet-RN/labels/pleasereview) label. Generally PRs should sit with this label for 48 hours in order to garner feedback. It may be merged before if all relevant parties had a look at it.
+3. No PR should be merged until all reviews' comments are addressed.
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+**Reviewing pull requests**:
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+When reviewing a pull request, the end-goal is to suggest useful changes to the author. Reviews should finish with approval unless there are issues that would result in:
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+1. Buggy behavior.
+2. Undue maintenance burden.
+3. Breaking with house coding style.
+4. Pessimization (i.e. reduction of speed as measured in the projects benchmarks).
+5. Feature reduction (i.e. it removes some aspect of functionality that a significant minority of users rely on).
+6. Uselessness (i.e. it does not strictly add a feature or fix a known issue).
+
+**Reviews may not be used as an effective veto for a PR because**:
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+1. There exists a somewhat cleaner/better/faster way of accomplishing the same feature/fix.
+2. It does not fit well with some other contributors' longer-term vision for the project.
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+## Helping out
+
+We use [labels](https://github.com/polkawallet-io/polkawallet-RN/labels) to manage PRs and issues and communicate state of a PR. Please familiarize yourself with them. Furthermore we are organizing issues in [milestones](https://github.com/polkawallet-io/polkawallet-RN/milestones). 
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+## Releases
+
+Declaring formal releases remains the prerogative of the project maintainer(s).
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+## Changes to this arrangement
+
+This is an experiment and feedback is welcome! This document may also be subject to pull-requests or changes by contributors where you believe you have something valuable to add or change.
+
+## Heritage
+
+These contributing guidelines are modified from the "OPEN Open Source Project" guidelines for the Level project: <https://github.com/Level/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>