This was a year-long project with a team of dedicated volunteers from around the world. So much gratitude to Greg Cassel, Coraline Ada Ehmke, Gerardo Lisboa, Rynn Mancuso, Mo McElaney, Maryblessing Okolie, Ben Sternthal, and Casey Watts for their dedication and expertise.

To ensure that we were meeting the real-world needs of communities, we surveyed, interviewed, and shared working drafts with over 2 dozen open industry experts to learn about the challenges of code of conduct enforcement and where current tools were falling short. Thanks to those who participated!

And adopters can now directly edit a template to customize their code of conduct with their own reporting and enforcement procedures, using a step-by-step builder tool on the Contributor Covenant website.

The enforcement guidelines section has been reimagined as “Addressing and Repairing Harm,” reflecting an alignment with principles of restorative justice, including finding ways to safely reintegrate someone back into a community after an incident occurs.

Contributor Covenant 3.0 is designed to be more adaptable to different kinds of communities, both online and offline. It is written with clearer, less US-centric language, intended to be easier to understand and translate.