[FusionDev] Code of Conduct and Decision-making Process

[CyberOrg]

Hello Community

I have put together some ideas of what should be a code of conduct
when interacting with users and other developers of the community, and
the decision making model we can adopt for our project.

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Code of Conduct

Calm, respectful, dignified, understanding, intelligent, useful

1. Be respectful of others *always*
2. Try and understand other contributor's perspective
3. Always believe everyone wants to do the best for the project
4. Before posting anything or replying on ML/Forum
   take a moment before hitting send to ask yourself the following:
    a. Is there anything there which might offend anyone
    b. Is this post going to benefit the discussion/project
    c. Has these things been said/discussed already?
    d. Could what you are saying be misinterpreted as criticism, or
wrong due to language barriers or personal barriers?
    e. Is what you are posting a suggestion, solution or a problem? If
it is third do not hit 'send', start a new topic asking if this
problem can be adressed.
5. Stick to the topic

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Decision-Making Process

Propose -> discuss -> amicable decision

Propose -> discuss -> no decision -> obby (If we do this, we need to
make obby as well known as possible) -SmSpillaz document pros/cons ->
committee vote -> decision

If a practical decision cannot be made, we need to actually make
samples of each solution and test them to see if they work in practice

1. Committee including all contributors should be formed to arbitrate whenever a
 amicable decision is not reached even after reasonable deliberation
on the ML/Forum.

2. "Reasonable deliberation" can be defined as any thread with over 50 posts.

3. All the parties involved should get to put their views listing pros and cons
in one obby document, the committee will go through it and vote, majority vote
will have to be accepted by all. The same process we followed when
selecting new name.

4. No single individual will take decision on important matters without
following this process.

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Feel free to add comments or add/improve points on these documents on
obby.opencompositing.org.


Kind regards

-J