Code of conduct

[abranczyk]

We need a code of conduct.

Perhaps we can use an existing one, say from Pennylane, or from Qiskit for inspiration?

[Christophe-pere]

I agree, I find the LAT code of conduct very interesting for collaboration with a scientific misconduct section and one on publication.

[abranczyk]

Yes, this is great! There are definitely a lot of sections in the LAT doc that can be directly applied here.

Here is some info from GitHub about adding a code of conduct: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-code-of-conduct-to-your-project

From that ref, a couple of good suggestions:

• Research different codes of conduct designed for open source projects. Choose one that reflects your community's standards.
• If you use a code of conduct written by another person or organization, be sure to follow any attribution guidelines from the source.

Here is the Qiskit code of conduct: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-metapackage/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Also, I think there might be a way to make sure that someone explicitly agrees to the code of conduct before being able to make a PR in a repo, but I don't know exactly how this works. We should investigate this.

[Christophe-pere]

Thanks for these resources, I will compile everything. I also found papers on Code of Conduct which I will add to make the first draft.

• Tourani et al., 2017, Code of conduct in open source projects
• Li et al., 2021, Code of Conduct Conversations in Open Source Software Projects on Github

[Christophe-pere]

First draft available:

🌱 ٤ Code of Conduct DRiP.md

[abranczyk]

Thanks for putting this together @Christophe-pere

I think it will be easier to iterate on the document if it is stored in the repo, and we edit it on a separate branch that can be merged to main with a pull request when we are happy with it.

Here is the branch: https://github.com/DRiP-project/meta/tree/code-of-conduct Here is the document: https://github.com/DRiP-project/meta/blob/code-of-conduct/Code.of.Conduct.DRiP.md Here is the pull request: https://github.com/DRiP-project/meta/pull/25

[Christophe-pere]

I changed the code of conduct we can add it in a repo, meta?

[abranczyk]

Looks good @Christophe-pere. Would you like to merge the pull request? That will merge it into the meta repo.

I suggest using the "squash and merge" option to keep the commit history clean.