The WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project adopted its Community Code of Conduct in mid-2022. The Code of Conduct was forked from the Contributor Covenant, a template commonly used in many open source communities. 

Recently, WordPress contributors noticed that WordPress was not listed on the list of Adopters of the Contributor Covenant! To remedy this, a pull request to add WordPress to this list has been submitted. As of this post, it has not yet been merged. 

In an effort to better communicate our project’s Code of Conduct as widely and consistently as possible, an abbreviated version of the full Code of Conduct has been committed to the .github repository under the WordPress organization. Repositories with this name are treated differently by GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/, with all supported files being used as the defaults across the entire organization.

If a repository has its own CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file, that file will be used instead of the new, default one. Pull requests have been submitted to remove all repo-specific CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md files from unarchived WordPress organization repositories. Once merged, the default CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file will be displayed. A full list of all related pull requests can be found on WordPress/.github#1.  

If any maintainer feels the abbreviated or full length Code of Conduct does not adequately address their concerns, please reach out to the Community Team before merging a repository specific CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file.

As a reminder, the Code of Conduct is a living document. Edits can be suggested by emailing support@wordcamp.org. 

Props to @desrosj for all the help with this, from everything GitHub to writing large parts of this post.