Announcing Code of Conduct Enforcement Services

Hello project maintainers!

The .NET Foundation is pleased to provide a new centralized Code of Conduct (CoC) enforcement mechanism for member projects!

The Foundation has mandated use of our CoC for all projects since the start, and while we have a central contact for it (conduct@dotnetfoundation.org), it has mostly simply routed complaints to the appropriate project contacts for assessment and enforcement. This is an extra burden on projects as they have to deal with potentially unpleasant interactions and take decisive action. Further, different projects see different people and larger projects tend to attract more bad actors than smaller ones. While the larger project may see and take action, that leaves the bad actor free to bother other projects.

To increase the scale and effectiveness of the CoC, the Foundation board nominated a committee of people responsible for reviewing CoC complaints and adjudicating penalties. Offending users will be blocked from all member projects for the specified timeframe.

To protect the committee members from targeted harassment, membership in that committee will not be public, though the board knows the members. Notwithstanding the Foundation-wide process and blocklist, individual projects are free to maintain their own additional blocklists, should the need arise.

For transparency, we set up a mailing list that project maintainers can opt-in to for receiving periodic summaries of enforcement actions. These summaries will have personal information redacted for privacy reasons, but will contain enough context to show how and why decisions were made. You can sign up for that mailing list here: https://eepurl.com/hEENSb.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to either Nicole Miller (@NicoleAbuhakmeh), our new community manager, or myself.

Claire

This issue is an announcement about centralized Code of Conduct enforcement services and does not identify a file, test, or implementation entry point. It contains no concrete change request or completion criteria for a contributor.