[IPython-dev] Code of Conduct and Community Guidelines PR ready for feedback

[Fernando Perez]

Hi all,

it has taken us far longer than it should, but thanks to the persistent
work of a number of folks on the team, we finally have a PR ready for
public feedback!

https://github.com/jupyter/governance/pull/23/

These community guidelines/CoC documents were inspired by the ones from the
Django team (https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct), which seemed to us as
having some important qualities:

- Validated by real-world experience from a large and active project and
community.

- It highlights the positive reasons why all guidelines are the way they
are: across the guide, there's an emphasis on how it is a guide for
building a better community in the face of complex and challenging
interactions, rather than simply a laundry list of "mandated don'ts".  I
personally find that approach much more productive in the long run.

I want to emphasize that while the PR appears as mostly mine, this work was
done in conjunction with many others mostly during our most recent
in-person project meeting at Cal Poly, and this PR should be seen as the
official proposal from the project's Steering Committee and other core
developers present at that meeting.  We welcome input and feedback on the
PR and are open to clarifying/refining specifics, but we're committed to
moving forward with something very much along these lines.  If someone
feels very strongly that we should not have these guidelines in the first
place, it may not be worth your time trying to argue that point, as the
decision to adopt them is a done deal.

Multiple people have helped with the drafting and tuning of these documents
for our project, even if we started with the excellent base provided by the
Django team.  I'd like to particularly thank Reese Netro (without her
dedication this task would have lingered in my perpetually late todo list
til who knows when), Ana Ruvalcaba, Carol Willing and Yuvi Panda, who put
in a lot of extra time to make it happen, as well as the excellent points
about CoCs made by Safia Abdalla in her newsletter (
http://tinyletter.com/captainsafia).

Please provide any feedback you may have on the PR, as usual, and we'll all
do our best to respond.  We'd like to merge this sooner rather than later
(ideally by the new year, though given folks' travel/holiday schedule we
may slip by a few days).

One final note: if you'd like to help us with translations of these docs,
great!! We have an issue open for that:
https://github.com/jupyter/governance/issues/28.

Thanks again everyone, and sorry this took so long :)

Cheers,

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