My Thoughts About CoC

• Code of conduct is really important to a projects it helps contributors regarding possible issues like conflict resolution, who and where to contact the main contributors of the project, and finally set up the general rules. Furthermore, code of conduct is a good way to learn the essential values of project.I feel like a lot of people view code of conducts as a way of restricting potential contributors when it is meant to foster a better environment for developers. I think having a code of conduct definitely adds legitimacy to an open source project. Personally I would not contribute to a project without a code of conduct as a code of conduct sort of sets up the working environment of a project. Without having one, I wouldn’t know if the project has some sort of toxic setting that would be suitable for most people. Unless, the project is super interesting I would consider but it is practically the norm now to have a code of conduct on an open source project. Not saying that everyone will follow the code of conduct but it is still very good to have. Enforcing something like a CoC is just impossible online since CoC isn’t law but it can help deter people from potentially doing harm. I guess moderators can help like contributors who look at pull/issue/merge requests and see if anything harmful is happening that violates their code of conduct.

• During the CoC activity I picked the blender coc to look at and it seems very simple which compared to the Go CoC that we all looked it which is also simple but much more detailed with specific issues like conflict resolutions. Like the Code Covenant’s CoC which is very basic, I think every project can adopt something similar and perhaps through that we can all foster better development environments for all developers alike!