These guidelines apply to all official development communication channels (GitHub, Slack, mailing lists, discord, forums) and activities that take place on secondlife.com and in-world and are provided in addition to Second Life's general Community Standards.
Reports of violations can be sent to opensource-moderators@lindenlab.com and will get handled on a case by case basis. Debate about infractions is always off-topic in our mailing lists and forums.
We recognize that misunderstandings and mistakes can happen. We will only take actions after repeated intentional violations.
- Disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior or personal attacks.
- Remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable is not a productive one.
- If someone asks for help it is because they need it.
- Do politely suggest specific documentation or more appropriate venues where appropriate, but avoid aggressive or vague responses.
- Remember that decisions are often a difficult choice between competing priorities.
- If you disagree, please do so politely.
- If something seems outrageous, check that you did not misinterpret it.
- Ask for clarification, but do not assume the worst.
- When asking a question, meet others halfway. Let them know what you've already tried or where you've already looked.
- Be respectful of others' time. Follow the advice in How to Ask Smart Questions.
- Avoid repeating what has been said already.
- Making a conversation larger makes it difficult to follow, and people often feel personally attacked if they receive multiple messages telling them the same thing.
These guidelines are adapted from the Blender Developer Documentation Team's original Code of Conduct and are available under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 Int. license.