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Code of Conduct

Our Pledge#

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, 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.

Our Standards#

Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

  • Using welcoming and inclusive language
  • Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
  • Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
  • Focusing on what is best for the community
  • Showing empathy towards other community members

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

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

Our Responsibilities#

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.

Project maintainers 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, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Scope#

This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.

Guidelines#

Not everyone is familiar with open-source communities or intuitively understands what is acceptable behavior. To assist, the following guidelines and examples provide a quick overview to help you avoid common pitfalls:

  1. Do not feel entitled to free software, support, or advice, especially if you are not a contributor, member, or business customer. Do not expect others to give you status reports as if they work for you or owe you something, even if you've made a donation. Please refrain from using GitHub Issues or other development tools for general discussions, technical support, or personal opinions.

  2. Slow down and read the documentation and use the troubleshooting checklists provided to identify the root cause of a problem before submitting invalid bug reports, inciting public disputes, or insulting community members in public spaces. Such actions are disruptive and prevent maintainers and contributors from working on features and improvements that benefit users.

  3. Ignorant, reckless, or harsh communication is unacceptable, whether public or private.

Many issues that new users become upset about in old issue comments have been resolved. If not, rest assured that we are working diligently to improve the software.

Enforcement#

We will enforce our community standards as necessary appropriate to the circumstances to protect everyone's well-being if there are instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior.

Initial warnings may be issued in the form of a snarky comment, especially if you seem to be exhibiting behaviour from Guideline #3 above. For serious cases, we will refer you to this Code of Conduct to prevent any misunderstandings. We also reserve the right to remove rants, personal attacks, spam, and unsolicited advertising from our community forums.

In addition, we may use technical measures to temporarily or permanently restrict your access to our infrastructure.