Re: Documentation of what is appropriate for #guix?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:

> On 2022-02-19, matt@excalamus.com wrote:
>>  ---- On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:33:47 -0500 Vagrant Cascadian 
>> <vagrant@debian.org> wrote ----
>>  > Every now and then someone stumbles into #guix and ask questions that
>>  > I've gleaned over time are off-topic (e.g. non-free software). While I
>>  > have a pretty good idea what is appropriate for the channel, it is not
>>  > clear to me where that is documentated.
>>
>> I see the following when I connect to #guix:
>>
>> -ChanServ- [#guix] Welcome to #guix, home of the GNU Guix project! | Be kind
>>            to everyone. Ground rules:
>>            <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT> 
>> |
>>            Non-free software is off-topic:
>>            
>> <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html>
>>            | Leave messages with sneek: /msg sneek help
>
> I admittedly forget to check the messages from chanserv for channels I
> frequent regularly, having personally grown accustomed to the norms of
> the channel...

[...]

> Maybe it is now my job to propose something concrete, but I was
> curious what others thought before diving into details. :)

Yes, please propose!  :-)

For the record, the code of conduct is mentioned at
<https://guix.gnu.org/en/contribute/> but not at
<https://guix.gnu.org/en/contact/>.  As a first step, I propose to
address that with the patch below.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

diff --git a/website/apps/base/templates/contact.scm 
b/website/apps/base/templates/contact.scm
index 7ecd354..49d8393 100644
--- a/website/apps/base/templates/contact.scm
+++ b/website/apps/base/templates/contact.scm
@@ -35,6 +35,26 @@ channels|Bug reports|Help") #\|)
       (@ (class "page centered-block limit-width"))
       ,(G_ `(h2 "Contact"))
 
+      ,(G_
+        `(p
+          "We want to provide a warm, friendly, and harassment-free 
environment,
+           so that anyone can contribute to the best of their abilities.  To
+           this end our project uses a “Contributor Covenant”, which was 
adapted
+           from "
+          ,(G_ ((lambda (url)
+                  `(a (@ (href ,url)) ,url))
+                "https://contributor-covenant.org/";))
+          ".  You can find the full pledge in the "
+          ,(G_
+            `(a (@ (href 
"//git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT")
+                   (class "mono"))
+                "CODE-OF-CONDUCT"))
+          " file."))
+
+      ,(G_
+        `(p "Participation to the project communication channels listed below
+            is subject to this code of conduct."))
+
       ,@(map
         contact->shtml
         (context-datum context "contact-media"))))))