# Code of Conduct

## Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

## Our Standards

### Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment:

- ✅ Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
- ✅ Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
- ✅ Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
- ✅ Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
- ✅ Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community
- ✅ Using welcoming and inclusive language
- ✅ Respecting people's boundaries and privacy
- ✅ Assuming good intent

### Examples of unacceptable behavior:

- ❌ The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
- ❌ Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- ❌ Public or private harassment
- ❌ Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
- ❌ Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
- ❌ Dismissing or attacking minority viewpoints
- ❌ Pattern of boundary violations

## Emotional Safety (Palimpsest License Principles)

In alignment with the Palimpsest License emotional safety clause:

### Attribution and Recognition

- Contributors maintain the right to have their work acknowledged
- No erasure of historical contributions
- Maintain visible chain of authorship
- Credit original ideas and implementations

### Reversibility and Autonomy

- Respect people's right to fork and maintain alternatives
- No lock-in or coercive practices
- Support migration and portability
- Welcome healthy competition

### Psychological Safety

- Create space for learning and mistakes
- Reduce anxiety through clear processes
- Support experimentation
- Celebrate incremental progress

## Enforcement Responsibilities

Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Community leaders 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, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

## Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

## Enforcement

### Reporting

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at the contact information listed in MAINTAINERS.md.

All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

### Process

1. **Report**: Submit to maintainers (see MAINTAINERS.md)
2. **Acknowledgment**: Within 48 hours
3. **Investigation**: Gather facts from all parties
4. **Decision**: Within 7 days
5. **Appeal**: Available within 14 days

## Enforcement Guidelines

Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

### 1. Correction

**Community Impact**: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

**Consequence**: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

### 2. Warning

**Community Impact**: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

**Consequence**: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

### 3. Temporary Ban

**Community Impact**: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.

**Consequence**: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

### 4. Permanent Ban

**Community Impact**: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

**Consequence**: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

## Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from:
- [Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org), version 2.1
- Palimpsest License emotional safety principles
- [Rust Code of Conduct](https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct)

## Questions

For questions about this Code of Conduct, contact maintainers listed in MAINTAINERS.md.

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**Remember**: Be kind, be respectful, and assume good intent. We're all here to build great software together.
