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Code of Conduct

Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our project 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, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

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

Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our project include:

  • Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
  • Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
  • Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
  • Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
  • Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall project

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

  • The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
  • Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
  • Public or private harassment
  • Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
  • Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

Strict No LLM / No AI Policy

The project lead has an ethical objection to all use of LLMs for any purpose. We understand that you may be required to use AI in your day to day job; we not only reject such requirements, but more specifically, do not want any contributions that have been made by LLM usage, due to the steep global cost that such usage forces on all of humanity.

You will be responsible for any content you submit, including an acknowledgement that such submissions were written entirely by you. Any submissions that include LLM-generated content will be removed (PRs and issues closed, posts deleted, etc.). Repeated violations of this may result in users being barred from participating in the project.

Although the majority of conversations here are held in English, we appreciate that not everybody can speak it fluently. Please post your content in whatever language is most comfortable for you to write yourself (meaning, do not rely on an LLM to translate it to English). Assume that members of the community will use whatever translation tools are necessary to assist with understanding your non-English content.

There will be no discussion of chat-bots or LLM services permitted.

Enforcement Responsibilities

The project leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

The project leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the project in public spaces. Examples of representing our project include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported via GitHub to @bradwilson. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All project leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

Enforcement Guidelines

Project leaders will follow these Project Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

  1. Correction

    Project Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the project.

    Consequence: A private, written warning from project leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

  2. Warning

    Project Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

    Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in project spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

  3. Temporary Ban

    Project Impact: A serious violation of project standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.

    Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the project for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

  4. Permanent Ban

    Project Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of project standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

    Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the project.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is based on the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct, which itself is based on Contributor Covenant 2.0 and Mozilla’s code of conduct enforcement ladder.

LLM / AI prohibitions are based on the Zig Code of Conduct.

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