Status: draft for the technical preview.
Everyone who takes part in OperateBench — contributing, reviewing, reporting a defect, or arguing that the construct is wrong — should be able to do so without harassment, and should expect to be judged on the substance of their work.
We want this project to be a place where "your benchmark does not measure what you claim" is a normal, welcome sentence, said and received without personal attack in either direction.
- Engage with the argument, not the person making it.
- Give and accept technical criticism directly and specifically. A rejected design is not a rejected contributor.
- Say what you actually think about evidence, including when it undercuts the project's own claims.
- Be explicit about uncertainty rather than confident by default.
- Respect other people's time: search first, include reproduction steps, keep scope tight.
- Assume good faith, and ask before concluding someone acted badly.
- Harassment, intimidation, stalking or sustained disruption.
- Insults, demeaning comments, or attacks based on personal characteristics — including age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
- Sexualised language, imagery or attention in any project space.
- Publishing someone's private information without their explicit permission.
- Deliberately submitting content the contributor knows to be non-synthetic, personal or proprietary, or knowingly misrepresenting evidence, provenance or results.
- Retaliation against anyone who raises a concern in good faith.
This applies in all project spaces — the repository, issues, pull requests, discussions and reviews — and when someone is representing the project in public.
Report to dmitry@dwelly.group. Reports are handled confidentially, and the reporter's identity is not shared with the person reported without the reporter's consent.
Reports are acknowledged within 3 working days where possible. A maintainer with a conflict of interest in a report — including one who is its subject — recuses themselves from handling it.
Responses are proportionate, and typically escalate: a private explanation of what was wrong; a warning; a temporary restriction from project spaces; or a permanent ban. Where a response is applied, the reasoning is recorded, and the person affected can respond.
Governance during the preview is small and informal: Dwelly is the initial steward and currently makes these decisions. That is stated plainly rather than dressed up as a committee, and it will be revisited if the project grows.
This document is adapted in spirit from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.1. It is not a verbatim copy, and the Contributor Covenant text at that link governs its own use.