I've recently been looking at the Code of Ethics in various professional organizations such as the ACM Code of Ethics[1]
Most open source Codes of Conduct, including Fedora[2], are incredibly vague while Codes of Ethics are quite specific about the most compelling issues, such as conflicts of interest.
Has there been any discussion about upgrading to something that is more consistent with best practice or why this would not be desirable?
My recent blog[3] about challenges in another community makes some very specific comments on how the code of conduct was not fit for purpose when handling criminal accusations against a volunteer. I feel this failed both the accused and any potential victims. The relevant comments are mostly in the concluding paragraphs for those who don't want to read the whole thing.
Regards,
Daniel
1. https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics 2. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ 3. https://danielpocock.com/debian-falsified-harassment-claims-appelbaum-expuls...
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 9:07 PM Daniel Pocock daniel@pocock.pro wrote:
Has there been any discussion about upgrading to something that is more consistent with best practice or why this would not be desirable?
The Council recognizes that our existing Code of Conduct leaves a lot to be desired. A draft is being worked through with Red Hat Legal (albeit *much *more slowly than we'd like) that brings it up to the current state of the art for codes of conduct. Once that is done, it will be shared for community input. Council ticket #145[1] is the place that updates will happen when available.
[1] https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/145
On 26/08/2020 18:17, Ben Cotton wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 9:07 PM Daniel Pocock daniel@pocock.pro wrote:
Has there been any discussion about upgrading to something that is more consistent with best practice or why this would not be desirable?
The Council recognizes that our existing Code of Conduct leaves a lot to be desired. A draft is being worked through with Red Hat Legal
OK, it is good to see we found common ground on this so quickly.
I also appreciate the way so many Red Hat employees use their redhat.com email addresses, not every company in the free software space is consistent about that.
(albeit *much *more slowly than we'd like) that brings it up to the current state of the art for codes of conduct. Once that is done, it will be shared for community input. Council ticket #145[1] is the place that updates will happen when available.
Thanks, I'll be happy to look at it and give some feedback.
Regards,
Daniel
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