Community Standards
Noun · Open Source
Definitions
The shared expectations for behavior, contribution, communication, and moderation within a project or ecosystem, often documented through codes of conduct and contributor guidelines. Community standards help define what kind of participation is acceptable and sustainable.
In plain English: The rules and expectations for how people should behave in a community.
Example: "The maintainers tightened community standards after repeated harassment in issue threads."
Related Terms
- Open Source Community
- Open Source Maintainer
- Apache Foundation
- Committer
- Community Edition
- Eclipse Foundation
- Forking Etiquette
- Governance Model
- LibreOffice
- OSPO
- Patch Review
- Project Health
- Working Group
- API Specification Standard
- Autotools
- CNCF
- Code of Conduct Standard
- Core Contributor
- Erlang OTP
- Java Community Process
- K3s
- Project Charter