PypeIt Code of Conduct

The community of participants in the open-source PypeIt project is made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences success and continued growth. We expect everyone in our community to follow these guidelines when interacting with others both inside and outside of our community. Our goal is to maintain a community that is positive, inclusive, successful, and growing.

As members of the community,

  • We pledge to treat all people with respect and provide a harassment- and bullying-free environment, regardless of sex, sexual orientation and/or gender identity, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality, ethnicity, and religion. In particular, sexual language and imagery, sexist, racist, or otherwise exclusionary jokes are not appropriate.

  • We pledge to respect the work of others by recognizing acknowledgment/citation requests of original authors. As authors, we pledge to be explicit about how we want our own work to be cited or acknowledged.

  • We pledge to welcome those interested in joining the community, and realize that including people with a variety of opinions and backgrounds will only serve to enrich our community. In particular, discussions relating to pros/cons of various technologies, programming languages, and so on are welcome, but these should be done with respect, taking proactive measures to ensure that all participants are heard and feel confident that they can freely express their opinions.

  • We pledge to welcome questions and answer them respectfully, paying particular attention to those new to the community. We pledge to provide respectful criticisms and feedback in forums, especially in discussion threads resulting from code contributions.

  • We pledge to be conscientious of the perceptions of the wider community and to respond to criticism respectfully. We will strive to model behaviors that encourage productive debate and disagreement, both within our community and where we are criticized. We will treat those outside our community with the same respect as people within our community.

  • We pledge to help the entire community follow the code of conduct and to not remain silent when we see or experience violations. Reported violations will be acted upon in a timely manner. Code-of-conduct violations can be reported by contacting confidential.pypeit@ucolick.org (messages to this address are only sent to our Ombudsperson), direct messages to members of the PypeIt leadership team, or anonymously via an intermediary. All communications regarding such violations will be treated with the strictest confidence.

This code of conduct applies to all PypeIt community situations online and offline, including mailing lists, forums, social media, conferences, meetings, associated social events, and one-to-one interactions. By using this software, we politely request that you abide by our code of conduct.

Any related activity or project organized by members of the PypeIt community, including affiliated packages, are welcome to have their own codes of conduct, but agree to also abide by the present code of conduct.

This document is a modified version of the Astropy Code of Conduct, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, of which parts were originally adapted from the PSF Code of Conduct.