# Code of Conduct

## Our Pledge

We as contributors, maintainers, and community members pledge to make participation in Smart SDLC a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

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## Our Standards

**Examples of behaviour that contributes to a positive environment:**

- Using welcoming and inclusive language
- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
- Gracefully accepting constructive feedback
- Focusing on what is best for the community
- Showing empathy towards other community members

**Examples of unacceptable behaviour:**

- The use of sexualised language or imagery, and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
- Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- Public or private harassment
- Publishing others' private information (physical or email address) without explicit permission
- Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

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## Enforcement Responsibilities

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behaviour and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behaviour that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct.

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## Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces — GitHub repository, Discord community, and any other official communication channel — and also applies when an individual is officially representing the project in public spaces.

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## Reporting

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour may be reported to:

- **Email**: conduct@superml.org
- **Discord**: message a moderator in [discord.gg/26XMXkEt](https://discord.gg/26XMXkEt)

All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly. All maintainers are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter.

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## Enforcement Guidelines

Maintainers will follow these guidelines in determining the consequences for any action in violation of this Code of Conduct:

### 1. Correction

**Impact**: Use of inappropriate language or other unprofessional behaviour.

**Consequence**: A private written warning providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behaviour was inappropriate.

### 2. Warning

**Impact**: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

**Consequence**: A warning with consequences for continued behaviour. No interaction with the people involved for a specified period. This includes avoiding interaction in community spaces as well as external channels.

### 3. Temporary Ban

**Impact**: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behaviour.

**Consequence**: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period.

### 4. Permanent Ban

**Impact**: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

**Consequence**: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

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## Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/), version 2.1.

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## Community

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