This policy is designed to maintain a strictly technical focus while actively discouraging the types of social and political discussions that sometimes occur in open source communities.
It is a notably direct and minimalist code of conduct policy that takes a distinctly different approach from many standard open source project policies.
Here are the key aspects:
- Focuses exclusively on software-related contributions
- Explicitly rejects discussion of personal characteristics or identity unless directly relevant to software (e.g., accessibility issues)
- Takes a "software-only" stance on what's acceptable to discuss
- Standards are simple: If it relates to the software, it's allowed. If it doesn't, it isn't.
- Explicitly rejects "performative virtue signalling" and identity-based conflicts
- Expects participants to "behave like sensible adults" without detailed behavioral guidelines
- Single decision maker (repo owner) with complete authority
- No debate or discussion of moderation decisions
- Clear enforcement email provided
- Violations handled based on severity and frequency
- Applies only within code repositories
- Makes no claims on behavior outside the project space
- Rejects the common practice of detailed behavioral guidelines
- Takes an explicitly anti-political stance
- Deliberately minimalist approach to rules and enforcement
- Adapts the Contributor Covenant template but significantly modifies its typical approach
- Focuses solely on technical merit and software-related contributions