Dancer2::Policy(3)

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version 2.2.1 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ NAME ✨

Dancer2::Policy — the Dancer core + community policy and standards of conduct 💖 (this is the Perl man page, section 3, and it's a whole vibe check for how we treat each other)

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 2.2.1

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay bestie, this doc is where we lay out the various policies for the Dancer core devs AND the whole big beautiful community — and the biggest, most important one here is the standards of conduct.

This is literally what we expect from our community and from ourselves. These are the standards of behavior we're setting forth so that the community stays a safe space for every single one of its members, no exceptions, periodt. 🫶

👑 STANDARDS OF CONDUCT 👑

These standards apply anywhere the community comes together as a group. That includes — but is not limited to — the Dancer IRC channel, the Dancer mailing list, Dancer hackathons, and Dancer conferences.

  • Always be civil.
  • Heed the moderators.
  • Abuse is not tolerated.

Civility is simple, fr fr: stick to the facts while avoiding demeaning remarks and sarcasm. Being factual is not enough on its own. You also have to be civil. And nope, responding in kind to incivility is not acceptable — that's not the move. 💀

If the list moderators tell you that you are not being civil, carefully consider how your words have appeared before responding in any way. You may protest, but repeated protest in the face of a repeatedly reaffirmed decision is not acceptable.

Unacceptable behavior will result in a public and clearly identified warning. Repeated unacceptable behavior will result in removal from the mailing list and revocation of any commit bit. The first removal is for one month. Subsequent removals will double in length. After six months with no warning, a user's ban length is reset. Removals, like warnings, are public. 😭

The list of moderators is all active core developers. In alphabetical order, that's Alberto Simões, David Precious, Jason Crome, Mickey Nasriachi, Peter Mottram, Russell Jenkins, Sawyer X, Stefan Hornburg (Racke), and Yanick Champoux. ✨

This list might additionally grow to include active members of the community who have stepped up to help handle abusive behavior. If that should happen, this document would be updated to include their names.

Also important to understand: we foster a self-regulating nature at the Dancer community. That means anyone and everyone in the community — in the channel, on the list, at an event — has the ability to call out unacceptable behavior and incivility to others in the community. 👏

Moderators are responsible for issuing warnings and take disciplinary actions, but anyone may — and is encouraged — to publicly make note of unacceptable treatment of others.

As a core principle, abuse is never tolerated. One cannot berate, insult, debase, deride, put down, or vilify anyone, or act towards anyone in a way intending to hurt them. 🚫

The community specifically considers as abuse any attempts to otherize anyone by any individual characteristic, including, but not limited to, their technical skill, knowledge or by their age, colour, disability, gender, language, national or social origin, political or other opinion, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

The community aims to maintain a safe space for everyone, in any forum it has. If you ever feel this core principle has been compromised, you are strongly urged to contact a moderator. We are always here. 💜

Remember, this is your community, as much as it is anyone else's. 🦋

🎀 CREDITS 🎀

This policy has been adopted and adapted from the policy available for the Perl language development, provided by p5p (the Perl 5 Porters).

The original inspiration policy document can be read at perlpolicy. 📖

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Dancer Core Developers

This software is copyright (c) 2026 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

and that's the whole page bestie, tysm for reading 💖 this was Dancer2::Policy(3) from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-09-20, slay ✨

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