Dancer::Policy(3pm)

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💖 Dancer::Policy 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Dancer::Policy — the Dancer core + community policy and standards of conduct doc, manual page style, version 1.3522, and yes it is as important as it sounds 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this doc? It lays out the various policies for the Dancer core devs and the whole wide community — but the most iconic one in here is the standards of conduct. 💅

This is literally what we expect from our community and from ourselves, and it's the standard of behavior we're putting out into the world so that the community stays a safe space for every single member, no exceptions. periodt. 🫶

🌈 STANDARDS OF CONDUCT 🌈

These standards apply anywhere the community comes together as a group, bestie. That means yes, the Dancer IRC channel, the Dancer mailing list, Dancer hackathons, Dancer conferences — and that list is not exhaustive, iykyk. 🦋

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

🎀 the civility thing (it's giving basic decency)

Civility is actually so simple: stick to the facts while avoiding demeaning remarks and sarcasm. And no, being factual alone is not enough — you must also be civil. Matching incivility with more incivility? Not acceptable, bestie. Not the vibe. 🙈

If the list moderators tell you that you are not being civil, take a second and carefully consider how your words have appeared before you respond in literally any way. You may protest — sure — but repeated protest when a decision has been repeatedly reaffirmed is not acceptable. 🧚

⚠️ consequences (the part nobody wants but everybody needs)

Unacceptable behavior will get you a public and clearly identified warning. Repeated unacceptable behavior will get you removed from the mailing list and your commit bit revoked.

The first removal is for one month. Subsequent removals double in length. After six months with no warning, a user's ban length is reset. And removals, like warnings, are public. 💅

👑 the moderator squad

The list of moderators consists of all active core developers. That's, in alphabetical order: Alberto Simões, David Precious, Mickey Nasriachi, Russell Jenkins, Sawyer X, Stefan Hornburg (Racke), Steven Humphrey, and Yanick Champoux. 🌸

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

🦋 self-regulating, and that's a flex

Also important to understand: the Dancer community is self-regulating by nature. 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 from others in the community. 💪

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

💖 the core principle

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. full stop. 💜

The community specifically considers as abuse any attempts to otherize anyone — whether by their technical skill, knowledge, gender, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. 🌈

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. 🥺🫶

And 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) 2010 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 a wrap, bestie 🫶 this was Dancer::Policy, shipped with perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-05 — go be kind to each other, okay? the community is yours too 🌸✨💖

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