As Red Hat engineers, responsible for development and maintenance of so many open source projects, we must pave the way for keeping our project communities alive in a way that clearly shows our values and practices. 

It is our role to lead by example, by being transparent and reliable. While it is true we cannot control how others will behave in the community, we can offer guidelines to project contribution.

In that regard, the Red Hat Code of Conduct and Ethics makes it clear that we have to foster a sense of belonging in the community, in the sense that every member is respected regardless of sex, age, race, religion, etc.

In this sense, we must use appropriate language in code, documentation, and any communication with the community, and act as moderators if any interaction happens in a disrespectful or partial manner in the community or if any contribution uses foul language.

Further reading – Red Hat Code of Conduct and Ethics: https://source.redhat.com/departments/legal/globallegalcompliance/compliance_folder/code_of_business_conduct_and_ethics_pdfpdf

GitHub links to this file, on the main repository page on the right column underneath “About”.

Examples:

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/code_of_conduct.md (latest contributor covenant; to apply update the “INSERT CONTACT METHOD” text)

https://github.com/modcluster/mod_cluster/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Activity

Create/update/verify CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md in the root of the repository, understand it and apply it. Update the spreadsheet with the status.

link to document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dbOk4eorV4LQGNrhNVB1bLyiowGBkhdf5o3bLNEfVJY