Dear all, As a follow-up to the previous Governance meeting, I would like to propose updating the Jenkins Code of Conduct <https://www.jenkins.io/project/conduct> (CoC). Currently it is based on Contributor Covenant 1.3 <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/3/0/code-of-conduct/> which was officially adopted on Jan 06, 2016. Contributor Covenant is widely used in open-source projects, and this was the most recent version at that time. Now there are versions 1.4 <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct/> and 2.0 <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/> of Contributor Covenant.
* Why update? * New versions of Contributor Covenant extend our version significantly, e.g. pledge and standards, unacceptable behavior, representing the project and social media matters, etc. These changes are pretty important IMHO. Also, we have recently started a process of aligning the Jenkins project with graduated project criteria defined by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (see the proposal from Tracy Miranda here <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-dev/I3sUP2SB2JI>). One of the checklist items is adopting the CDF's Code of Conduct <https://github.com/cdfoundation/toc/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md> which is based on Contributor Covenant 1.4. *Background.* At the last Governance Meeting on Jun 03 we had a sync-up with Dan Lorenc who is the current CDF Technical Oversight Committee chair. Links are here: recording <https://youtu.be/R80Rv6G-Oww?t=1728>, meeting notes <https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Nr8QpqYgBiZjORplL_3Zkwys2qK1vEvK-NYyYa4rzg/edit#bookmark=id.66p0d0acy2w2>. Some clarification we have got: - CDF does not require us to adopt the CDF Code of Conduct as long as the Jenkins project has one and as long as they are aligned. We interpret it as using a similar or compatible version of Contributor Covenant. - CDF is fine with a 2-stage escalation process. We can keep the Jenkins Governance Board as a first stage as it is currently documented <https://www.jenkins.io/project/conduct/#reporting>. CDF can act as a second level of escalation and as an entity for mitigating cross-project Code of Conduct escalations should it happen - Right now there is no confirmed plan to update CDF's Code of Conduct to version 2.0 There is also a consensus that we would like to update the code of conduct, especially taking the terminology update discussions <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-dev/CLR55wMZwZ8> which are a sensitive topic to many Jenkins contributors. We have 3 options: - Update to Contributor Covenant 1.4 <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct/> - Update to Contributor Covenant 2.0 <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/>. Note that there is still no changelog for the version 2.0, some "breaking changes" are mentioned here <https://github.com/ContributorCovenant/contributor_covenant/issues/744>. There is also no Git tags, so we cannot really ensure that the version 2.0 is fixed - Keep it as is, Contributor Covenant 1.3 <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/3/0/code-of-conduct/> *Proposal*: I suggest updating Jenkins Code of Conduct to version 1.4. Taking the lack of changelog and Git tags for the version 2.0, I am not sure it is worth going with this version for now. The breaking changes also seem to be pretty important, and I am not sure we want to deviate from the CDF's CoC version and explore the legal differences. We can update CoC again when and if CDF goes to a higher version of Contributor Covenant. I would appreciate any feedback, and I suggest to vote on the update at the next Governance meeting <https://www.jenkins.io/project/governance-meeting/> on June 17th. Thanks for your time, Oleg Nenashev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPfivLCHDM6jEZJ%3D6t%3DWN%2BRJLiGFw%2BFTvxsjGzuKKoWHZWyW6A%40mail.gmail.com.
