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Code of Conduct

Our commitment

Section titled “Our commitment”

patterson-corp is maintained as part of Patterson Companies’ internal engineering practice. Contributors are expected to conduct themselves professionally, in a manner consistent with Patterson’s own employee standards of conduct, whether they are Patterson employees, contractors, or automated agents acting on their behalf.

Expected behavior

Section titled “Expected behavior”
  • Communicate directly and respectfully in issues, pull requests, and reviews.
  • Assume good faith. Disagree with a proposal or a review comment on its merits, not its author.
  • Give and receive feedback focused on the work: correctness, standards adherence, maintainability, and the accuracy of any claim a skill or document makes.
  • Respect the provenance conventions in CONTRIBUTING.md. Do not present a guess as an authoritative Patterson standard, and do not remove a documented [TBD] without the source material to justify it.
  • Keep discussion of sensitive material – credentials, personal data, unreleased business information – out of public issues and pull requests. Use the private channel described in SECURITY.md for anything security-sensitive.

Unacceptable behavior

Section titled “Unacceptable behavior”
  • Harassment, discriminatory language, or personal attacks directed at any contributor.
  • Deliberately introducing incorrect standards content, fabricated sourcing, or content that misrepresents Patterson policy.
  • Publishing another person’s private information without consent.
  • Circumventing the review, testing, or provenance requirements described in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Scope

Section titled “Scope”

This applies within all spaces associated with this repository – issues, pull requests, discussions, and any other project communication channel – and when an individual is representing the project or Patterson Companies in a public setting.

Enforcement

Section titled “Enforcement”

Report a concern to the repository’s listed CODEOWNERS team, or through Patterson’s internal HR and compliance channels for matters involving Patterson personnel. Reports are handled discreetly. [TBD: Patterson has not published a repository-specific enforcement escalation path or response-time commitment; this document does not invent one.]

Attribution

Section titled “Attribution”

This document is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.1, for a business-to-business engineering context.

Source of truth: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md in the patterson-corp repository.