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Code of Conduct

To help us deliver great features and support the Renovate Open Source project we ask that you:

  • are polite
  • pay attention to details
  • keep in mind that most maintainers are volunteers
  • are respectful of the time and effort of the maintainers

Our priorities

We want to keep this project sustainable. This means we support our maintainers and contributors, who spend their free time to help others.

Maintainers getting stressed is a big threat to Open Source projects, like ours. Stressed maintainers quit, or reduce their time spent on the project. Often a few users behave badly, where most users are nice.

We want to avoid maintainers getting stressed out by bad behavior from contributors. That's why we have these rules.

Politeness

Sadly, it's common in Open Source projects for a few users to behave in an aggressive and rude way. A user might say something like: "You should have fixed this bug already!", or "Why am I still waiting for this feature?". We do not allow this kind of behavior.

No mean comments

We expect basic politeness, do not act rude. For example: it is okay if you ask a question and do not thank us afterwards. But avoid writing mean comments like:

  • "Pity the documentation didn’t say that."
  • "Thanks for nothing."

No thumbs-down emojis (except on polls)

Do not give a thumbs-down emoji to posts. Even if you are sad, or angry about a response: do not use the thumbs-down emoji.

The only time a thumbs-down is appropriate is when we, or a user, asks for a vote about something.

Do not start Twitter mobs

Do not (try to) start Twitter mobs against the project or maintainers. Especially if you got rate-limited from interacting with this project, because you did not follow the rules.

We are not a village square

This repository is a place where a minority show up to do the work. The vast majority benefit, for example by getting their support questions answered.

This repository is not a "village square" where all opinions are equal. Nor is everyone's time equal here.