Betat Code of Conduct
Betat exists to preserve the record of human beings for other human beings. A project with that purpose must treat the humans who build it accordingly.
Scope
This Code of Conduct applies to all spaces of the Betat open-source project: this repository, its issues and pull requests, and any official project communication channel. It governs Contributors participating in the codebase. Provenancier communities are self-governed and set their own conduct standards within their domains, as defined in ARCHITECTURE.md.
Our Standard
Participants in this project commit to:
- Respect the person. Critique ideas, designs, and code — never the human being behind them. Disagreement is expected; disrespect is not.
- Assume good faith. Contributors join from every continent, language, and level of experience. Unclear communication is an opportunity to clarify, not to attack.
- Welcome newcomers. A first pull request deserves patience. No contribution is too small, and no question is too basic.
- Keep it about the work. Harassment, discrimination, personal attacks, sexualized language, doxxing, and sustained disruption have no place here, in any form.
- Honor the mission’s humility. Betat verifies human origin — not correctness, not quality, not worth. Contributors extend the same restraint to each other: we do not judge who is worthy of participating, only whether contributions serve the project.
Enforcement
Violations may be reported to the project maintainer by opening a confidential contact through the repository’s listed maintainer profile, or via the contact published at betat.org.
The maintainer will review reports promptly and in confidence. Responses are proportionate and may include a private warning, a public correction, temporary restriction from project spaces, or permanent removal for severe or repeated violations. Reporters will not face retaliation for good-faith reports.
Evolution
Like the project’s Foundational Guidelines, this document is a seed. The Contributor community may refine it through the standard issue and pull request process. Projects preferring an established standard may propose adopting the Contributor Covenant (contributor-covenant.org) — the widely used open-source code of conduct — as a replacement or supplement.
Betat. The human record, for the other person.