A bit over two years ago, the OCaml community wrote and adopted a code of conduct and put together a code of conduct team. The code of conduct team is there for anyone in the community whenever they have concerns about behavior that falls within the scope of the code of conduct. It’s currently made up of @c-cube, @Khady, @mseri, @rjbou myself.
When putting together the code of conduct team, we mentioned that we’d rotate the team from time to time to keep it dynamic. We’re now rotating one team member: I’m leaving the team and @shonfeder is joining. Thanks a lot, @shonfeder, for taking on this responsibility!
Let’s also use this opportunity to explain how the Code of Conduct team operates: We generally do not step in on our own initiative, but only when asked. That’s to avoid having five community members acting as a kind of “overarching community police”. That said, we will step in without being asked in extreme cases, but this has not happened so far. We do moderate and/or act when people reach out to us. That does happen from time to time.
By the way, you can adopt the Code of Conduct yourself on your OCaml GitHub/GitLab repos by creating a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, containing the CODE_OF_CONDUCT_TEMPLATE - full instructions here. So far, it is already adopted on this discuss forum, the caml-list@inria.fr mailing list, the OCaml IRC, OCaml discord, physical events like OCaml Workshop, and these repositories. Absolutely everyone is welcome to adopt it on their OCaml repository as well. Adopting it doesn’t have a practical effect in a big majority of cases, but it always makes contributors, particularly newcomers, feel more welcome.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Best,
@pitag on behalf of the whole Code of Conduct team