Enforcement, the Late ’80s Hacker Way

This project formally adopts the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. However, in the spirit of Berkeley UNIX and the Free Software Foundation, we also recognize that a little hacker humor keeps the terminals warm.

Therefore, enforcement will not be handled by the House Unhackerlike Activities Committee (HUACom), which has yet to be successfully maked on any system. Instead, it will follow these principles:

Don’t be an ass. If you are, expect a gentle nudge.
No committees. We have no “Central Committee for Moral Hygiene.” We don't even have a mailing list.
Trolls get /dev/null. Please direct all flames to /dev/null, where they will be queued for garbage collection.
Respect is portable. Works equally well on VAX, Sun-3, and x86 (when it finishes compiling).
Hack, don’t whack. Use your energy for patches, not politics. This is a source tree, not Usenet.
Be excellent to each other. It’s POSIX compliant.

Final Note

If you actually manage to summon drama, congratulations—you’ve reinvented Usenet. Please take it there instead. Otherwise, treat fellow contributors with respect, keep the hacks flowing, and remember: no one ever debugged faster by being a jerk.