Haveno adopts Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct v2.1

Haveno¹ has adopted the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct version 2.1², after erciccione³’s recent commit⁴ to the official repository:

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. [..]

The Contributor Covenant was created by Coraline Ada Ehmke⁵, an open source dev, advocate, and LGBT activist.

Althought this has already been adopted by a lot of open-source projects since 2014, both the CoC and its creator have been surrounded by controversy⁶’⁷’⁸’⁹.

The enforcement of a political document¹⁰ in FLOSS projects has raised concerns over exposing the open source world to anti-meritocracy proponents and the inherent conflict with the status quo, code is law, mantra:

This seems antithetical to the often-needed brutal honesty that promotes the best code. I don’t want to be saddled with inferior code because someone’s feelings might have been hurt. The priority should be towards “excellence in code” over “excellence in politics”. (ReinsBrain)¹¹

It will be interesting to see when and how exactly this will be enforced with Haveno and how the Monero community will react.