Glowstone Code of Conduct

Purpose

One of the Glowstone Project's top priorities is to foster an open and welcoming environment. As such, it is our responsibility as contributors and maintainers to ensure our project is inclusive and harassment-free for everyone — regardless of their characteristics. This includes (but is not limited to) age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We believe that diversity is a huge strength and in order to encourge everyone who participates in the Glowstone Project to help create a welcoming and productive atmosphere, we have outlined our expectations for this community, consequences for unacceptable behavior, and where you can go for help.

Please keep in mind that this is not and does not intend to be an exhaustive list of all the things that you can't do. Rather, take it for what it was made to be: suggestions and guidelines for our community to continue being excellent to each other while enriching all of us through your unique experiences and ideas.

Our Standards

We expect all participants in our community to:

Use welcoming and inclusive language. We expect all members of our community to conduct themselves professionally — be kind to others, don't insult or put down other participants, and so on. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior is not acceptable.
Be respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences. We are all humans with unique experiences and ideas and as such we‘re bound to disagree at some point. However, disagreement is not an excuse for bad behavior and poor manners. We understand that sometimes you may get frustrated, but it’s important never to turn that into a personal attack. An environment where people feel uncomfortable or threatened isn‘t just bad, but it’s also unproductive. Be respectful of others not just within our community, but when representing us to other people outside of our community.
Gracefully accept constructive criticism. Criticism and disagreements — both social and technical — happen all the time, but it is important that we solve these conflicts constructively. Each of us is different and we come from a wide range of backgrounds. Consequentially, we all have different perspectives on issues. Even if you don't understand why someone has a certain viewpoint on an issue, refrain from blaming and instead focus on resolving problems and learning from mistakes.
Focus on what is best for the community. With a project like Glowstone, your work and contributions will affect many other people and you should take the consequences of your actions, good or bad, into account when making decisions.
Show empathy towards other community members. We strive to be a friendly community that understands and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. Try to understand someone‘s situation and fully realize they’re a human — just like you — and can make mistakes.

Following these guidelines will contribute to creating a positive environment in our community.

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 (generally, if someone asks you to stop, then stop)
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, generally following the guidelines for enforcement of this code of conduct.

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

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting mastercoms at mastercoms@tutanota.de. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. If you have a report about mastercoms, please contact gdude2002.

Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other members of the project's leadership.

Generally, if the project team encounters or is shown activity that violates this Code of Conduct, we may warn the user up to a maximum of 3 times and minimum of 1 time, depending on the severity of the infraction. Warning may be done publicly in the communication channel where the violation occurred, or may be done privately if the warning involves private and/or sensitive information. The offending content may be removed or edited based on the discretion of the project team. Once a certain person has been warned enough times, they will be temporarily banned from our community and if offenses continue after the temporary ban, the person will be permanently banned. The project team reserves the right to change this process on a case by case basis, especially if the violation is particularly egregious.

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. For example, this includes (but is not limited to) all of our project's GitHub pages, our website, forums, IRC channel, testing server and Discord.

Attribution

The following documents and projects have aided the creation of this code of conduct.