I'd like to make the context a bit more specific.

• 1st suggestion: A code of conduct taken seriously (and I do) should only govern community. What you do in your private matters is something else.
• 2nd change: Spelling correction (harrassment => harassment).
• 3rd suggestion: "other unprofessional conduct" is very unspecific. There are two ways to fix this. Add similar instead of other. By doing so you define unprofessional conduct as being similar to personal attacks, trolling, public or private harassment. "Other unprofessional" conduct may be for instance posting cat pictures (I am even annoyed but you are free to do so!) while "similar unprofessional conduct" would not include cat pictures.

Suggested changes in bold/strike-through:

As contributors and maintainers of the CakePHP project, we pledge to respect everyone who contributes by posting issues, updating documentation, submitting pull requests, providing feedback in comments, and any other activities related to this community.

Communication through any of CakePHP's channels (GitHub, IRC, mailing lists, Google+, Twitter, etc.) must be constructive and never resort to personal attacks, trolling, public or private harrassment, insults, or other similar unprofessional conduct.

We promise to extend courtesy and respect to everyone involved in this project regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, race, ethnicity, religion, or level of experience. We expect anyone contributing to the CakePHP project to do the same.

If any member of the community violates this code of conduct, the maintainers of the CakePHP project may take action, removing issues, comments, and PRs or blocking accounts as deemed appropriate.

If you are subject to or witness unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please email us at [email protected].```

What about those?

In case there are none(?) I am willing to contribute the German one.

Helloes,

language is a big problem and also a discrimination factor.
Some CoCs specify language:

• http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/

I'd like to see twofold:

• An official stance on language, e.g. that all support channels, source code documentation and the book is only offering English as guaranteed but...
• That other languages are respected on XY
• That no discrimination should happen because of language barriers. As this DID IMHO happen a few month ago I see this as a case.

So there needs to be a concise sentence in essence saying: Development and communication is primarily English (practicability) but other languages are respected and discrimination because of weak English is not okay.

The implications are that the core team should not be obligated to translate docs but for instance there should be done as much as possible to include non native speakers for instance at conferences, through subtitles in videos, by welcoming their chatting in the official channel and on google groups (TBD) etc.

This is a hard issue because it is a hard problem because de facto discrimination and practicability go hand in hand.

I am not strongly pushing this, because it is hard to solve as a concise and precise don't do rule, maybe it should be a sentence in the preamble adding to the spirit of our CoC instead... but see it as a primary exclusion factor and problem.

I'll just leave this here... http://cakefest.org/conduct

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