The Code of Conduct that all community members must agree to abide by.

Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

• Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
• Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
• Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
• Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
• Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

• The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
• Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
• Public or private harassment
• Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered to be inappropriate in a professional setting

Focused on Technology

Authelia is focused solely on the technology itself. We aim to remain completely neutral in all ideological, political, and other controversial matters. We consider this a professional standard within the community. This aligns with our second guiding standard; being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.

While we will not be expressly strict about this and we will be somewhat permissive of such topics, we discourage them and there are a few guidelines to be aware of. The core intent by these guidelines is that we do not want unrelated matters to cause a divide within our community, there are other more appropriate communities to have these disagreements.

Discussion about topics which can reasonably be categorized like this or are otherwise not related to technology should strictly be conducted in off topic areas of the community. These discussions must at all times be professional and civilized.

If you believe one of these topics is not in line with other areas of our code of conduct we strongly urge people to not engage in the discussion and instead bring it to the attention of a community leader.

At any point if a community leader requests that any non-technical discussion should not continue then all parties will immediately respect and adhere to such a request without disagreement.

In the event that one of these topics becomes a heated argument within all likelihood action will be taken against all parties still involved as to avoid taking any particular stance on any non-technical disagreement. The actions taken will be as described in this code of conduct.

Generative AI

There is an emerging convenience of Generative AI that’s becoming very popular. It’s quite apparent that Generative AI is an amazing tool that is very useful in saving precious time. While we’re welcoming of the technology we have the expectation of ourselves that we clearly communicate where and how we’re using it.

The rational behind this is that it’s quite clear Generative AI can make some serious and critical mistakes which may or may not be clear when considered rationally. The issue is that it’s very good at getting most things to appear correct, and it’s very easy to miss a serious and critical mistake when you’re not considering the fact something was produced via Generative AI.

This is based on professionalism that we also expect from every user in the community. This does not solely apply to the obvious elements such as pull requests; but also applies to the creation of feature requests, bug reports, discussions, and general communication within the community.

Enforcement Responsibilities

Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at . All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

Enforcement Guidelines

Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

1. Correction

Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

2. Warning

Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

3. Temporary Ban

Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.

Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

4. Permanent Ban

Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.0, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html.

Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by Mozilla’s code of conduct enforcement ladder.

For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq. Translations are available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations.