On 7 May 2026, @dcantrell tendered his resignation on the Fedora Council
private list. This commit processes the resignation in Code of Conduct
Committee documentation by noting the end of Dave's term as a past
member of the Committee.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
Notable exceptions:
- CoC doesn't have any public Forge repos
- fedora-badges doesn't exist on Forge
Reviewed-on: #287
Reviewed-by: Petr Bokoč <pbokoc@noreply.forge.fedoraproject.org>
This commit represents a notable change to the Fedora Code of Conduct,
including new language that describes our stance against retaliation and
defining protections for reporters and participants, and addressing the
issue of false reports.
The work in making this update began in September 2024 by Marie Nordin
(@riecatnor) who first raised this as an issue and identifying an
industry trend towards including language about retaliation in a Code
of Conduct. A proposal was made and went through several rounds of
revision. The revision represented in this commit was signed off by Red
Hat Legal (Richard Fontana) in January 2026.
Upon merging to the `main` branch, the Fedora Code of Conduct v2.1 comes
into effect and will be used as guiding reference for future tickets by
the Fedora Code of Conduct Committee.
CC, CoC Committee: @jspaleta@jonatoni@dcantrell@ankursinha@chris
CC, Council: @bookwar@churchyard@t0xic0der@amoloney@ryanlerch@pboy@pbokoc@nimbinatus
Fixes CoC#345.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
Performs a technical writing pass on `clarifying-statements.adoc` to
improve information hierarchy and scanability.
**Note on Scope**: These changes are strictly editorial and structural.
They do not materially alter the interpretation, substance, or
enforcement standards of the previously agreed-upon text. As this
refactor preserves the original intent while optimizing for
documentation standards, it is implemented as a unilateral maintenance
update.
**Detailed Changes**:
* **Structure**: Converts dense prose regarding event requirements into
a bulleted list to clearly delineate standards for "Digital Presence,"
"Event Prominence," "In-Person Reporting," and "Physical Signage".
* **Navigation**: Adds AsciiDoc anchors (`[[visibility]]`,
`[[adapting-contributor]]`) to support deep linking.
* **Clarification**: Renames the "Awareness" section to "Visibility and
Awareness" to better reflect the content.
* **Flow**: Streamlines the introduction to better position the file as
a supplementary, living document.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
This commit makes the identity of a Fedora Code of Conduct more explicit
and clear, different from just "any" Code of Conduct. This will be
important for versioning of future changes to the Fedora Code of Conduct
document, to give the document a more firm identity and tracked changes.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
This commit makes several minor changes to the Fedora Code of Conduct
document behind-the-scenes. The changes are as described as follows:
- Description: Adds a SEO-friendly description for the page, summarizing
the page and its contents. This will appear when linked online, e.g.
on social media websites or chat rooms.
- Authors: Add original authors, co-authors, and communities of
reference involved in the drafting of the Fedora CoC.
- Specifically version the current draft by Marie Nordin as v2.0, last
updated in May 2021. This will be important, as we will start to
version future changes to the Code of Conduct going forward, for
maximum awareness and transparency for changes.
- Anchors: Add section anchors to headers, to make them more static and
less likely to change over time. This will break old links… but I
think it is better to be explicit and use SEO-friendly header anchors
as a standard going further.
All of these changes do not represent content or interpretative changes
to the Fedora Code of Conduct or the behavior we expect people to hold
themselves accountable to. Therefore, I am making these changes
unilaterally and pushing directly to `main`.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
This commit addresses feedback that came up in a Fedora Discussion topic
about whether Telegram groups are official or unofficial. The Code of
Conduct was written at a time when we were only beginning to use Matrix
more formally in the project. Since the time that the Code of Conduct
was published, we have now shifted completely to Fedora Discussion and
Fedora Chat/Matrix as our official chat platforms, as verified by the
Communications page.
It might be more wise to link out to the Communications page in the
Project docs, but for now, this commit addresses an important
clarification about where the Code of Conduct is more rigidly applied
and where it is more challenging to enforce.
ref: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/the-status-of-the-telegram-groups-within-the-project/172185/13
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
In a past commit, I removed Josh Berkus (@jberkus) and Laura Santamaria
(@nimbinatus) as current members of the Fedora Code of Conduct
Committee, but I forgot to add them as past members in the
documentation. This commit fixes this. Thanks @jonatoni for pointing
this out to me!
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
This commit formally ends the terms of Josh Berkus (@jberkus) and Laura
Santamaria (@nimbinatus) in their temporary role as Fedora Code of
Conduct Committee members. It also formally begins the terms of Ankur
Sinha (@ankursinha) and Chris Onoja Idoko (@chris) as the newest members
of the Committee. Ankur and Chris are joining as permanent members.
The `codeofconduct@` email alias and other Committee processes are in
the process of being updated or have already been updated at time of git
commit.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
This commit adds Josh Berkus and Laura Santamaria as temporary members
of the Fedora Code of Conduct Committee, starting from today, July 7,
2025 until September 30, 2025. The Code of Conduct Committee approved
their nominations today, and this commit represents their formal
onboarding as new members of the Committee.
The temporary nature is to provide coverage for the Fedora Code of
Conduct Committee in light of some of our recent retirements from past
members, and my leave of absence which will keep me away for an extended
period of time. Since both Josh and Laura have previously received code
of conduct training, they have the necessary background to be effective
immediately in this role, together with the other existing members of
the Fedora Code of Conduct Committee.
ref: https://pagure.io/CoC/issue/355
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
I also consistently used one sentence per line, but broke the lines on
the parentheses, so the names are easier to quickly read in an editor.
Also, I moved part of the information about reports as sub-bullets under
the primary bullet about the responsibility of writing reports.
Since membership of the Code of Conduct Committee is one of the most-
likely things that someone would want to find from this document,
elevating it to the top of the document seems like better information
architecture to expose the useful information and make it indexable
under a heading.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
This commit updates the public documentation following the last meeting
of the Fedora Code of Conduct Committee earlier this week. The changes
in this commit are summarized below:
* Miscellaneous style fixes to formatting and use of whitespace.
* Added anchors for all headers, to create better permalink URLs.
* Added Jef Spaleta as a new member of the CoC Committee, as the new
Fedora Project Leader.
* Removed Matthew Miller and Marie Nordin as current members, and moved
to them a list of past members. It is a list for now, but later, this
could be a table like exists in other parts of Fedora Council docs.
* Removed Dorka Volavkova as a full member of the CoC Committee, with
the intention of adding a new sub-structure for a Fedora Flock On-site
Response Team, using a special mail alias to reaches a wider pool of
people for faster, more prioritized responses to events which are in
our realm of control as organizers. Dorka will re-appear in this new
sub-structure, once it is proposed. Along with Natalie Pazmiño, Shaun
McCance, and Amy Marrich.
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
This commit updates my last name throughout the Project and Council docs
pages. I am officially and legally "Wheeler" now and I have already
updated my FAS account information. So this is just making it more
official!
Signed-off-by: Justin W. Wheeler <jwf@redhat.com>
This commit migrates all content related to the Fedora Code of Conduct
into a new Antora module. This segments it off from the rest of the
Fedora Project docs and also sets up in the future to have reviewer
groups on Forgejo that are automatically tagged for review on specific
Antora modules.
It also provides improved discoverability of the Fedora CoC source
material. I used Antora page aliases to handle redirects from the
previous URL paths.
ref: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/council-docs/pull-request/242
Signed-off-by: Justin W. Wheeler <jwf@redhat.com>
