How the OCaml Community Established Its Code of Conduct

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Open-source OCaml adds a formal Code of Conduct added in 2022 after a multi-year effort starting around 2017: a volunteer adjudication team (five then six members, unpaid, rotated) drafts a document, solicits community feedback, and makes amendments; the final text originates from Contributor Covenant then switches to the COP/Rock template to avoid politicized wording; scope is limited to official OCaml spaces and maintainers handle reports through the volunteer committee.

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1. 0:00OCaml Code of Conduct intro
2. 2:14OCaml ecosystem history
3. 3:19What is a Code of Conduct
4. 4:01Why projects need CoC
5. 5:33OCaml CoC journey begins
6. 7:21Forming the CoC team
7. 9:09Volunteer-led challenges
8. 10:55Team member expectations
9. 12:22Team composition rotation
10. 13:29Choosing CoC template
11. 14:36Key CoC text elements
12. 16:02Community feedback revisions
13. 17:24Concerns about Contributor Covenant
14. 19:53Finalizing OCaml CoC
15. 20:38Clarifying CoC scope
16. 20:58Acknowledgments group effort
17. 22:20Q&A on community reactions

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