[Intel-gfx] community code of conduct for intel-gfx

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Thu Apr 2 00:48:24 PDT 2015


Code of conducts seem to be in the news a bit recently, and I realized that I've
never really documented how we run things. It's different from the kernel's
overall CodeOfConflict[1] and also differs from the official Intel/OTC one[2] in
small details about handling issues. And for completeness there's also the Xorg
Foundation event policy[3]. Anyway, I think this is worth clarifying and here it
goes.

It's simple: Be respectful, open and excellent to each another.

Which doesn't mean we want to sacrifice quality to be nice. Striving for
technical excellence very much doesn't exclude being excellent to someone else,
and in our experience it tends to go hand in hand.

Unfortunately things go south occasionally. So if you feel threatened,
personally abused or otherwise uncomfortable, even and especially when you
didn't participate in a discussion yourself, then please raise this in private
with the drm/i915 maintainers (currently Daniel Vetter and Jani Nikula, see
MAINTAINERS[4] for contact information). And the "in private" part is important:
Humans screw up, disciplining minor fumbles by tarnishing someones google-able
track record forever is out of proportion.

Still there are some teeth to this code of conduct:

1. First time around minor issues will be raised in private.

2. On repeat cases a public reply in the discussion will enforce that respectful
behavior is expected.

3. We'll ban people who don't get it.

And severe cases will be escalated much quicker.

This applies to all community communication channels (irc, mailing list and
bugzilla). And as mentioned this really just is a public clarification of the
rules already in place - you can't see that though since we never had to go
further than step 1.

Let's keep it at that.

And in case you have a problem with an individual drm/i915 maintainer and
don't want to raise it with the other one there's the Xorg BoD[5], linux
foundation TAB[6] and the drm upstream maintainer Dave Airlie[4].

1: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodeOfConflict
2: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/community
3: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgFoundation/Policies/Harassment/
4: https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS
5: http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/
6: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils/tab
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch


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