In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers strive to make participation in the Autocrypt community a pleasurable, harassment-free experience.
We recognize that sometimes people may have a bad day, or may be unaware of the impact of their behaviour. When that happens, you may carefully remind them in public or private, whatever is more appropriate. Assume good faith; it's more likely that participants are unaware than that they are intentionally trying to denigrate others or reduce the quality of discussion.
Project maintainers are those with commit rights to the Autocrypt specification. Each maintainer is asked to take responsibility and appropriate, careful action in response to witnessed instances of questionable 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. They may also ban temporarily or permanently a contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
This Code of Conduct applies both within project communication channels and gatherings as well as 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 representative at an online or offline event.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting select project maintainers, currently azul@autocrypt.org and compl4xx@autocrypt.org – they are also often on the IRC #autocrypt channel on freenode. They will review reports and involve other maintainers as appropriate, resulting in a response that is deemed neccessary and appropriate to the circumstances. Maintainers are obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. Maintainers are themselves not exempt from being reported about and may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other maintainers.