feat: blog post about Gatsby’s company values #7904
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This reads (and feels) amazing, @jlengstorf! 🙏 |
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| Companies live or die by the trust they build. Gatsby is an open source product, and that means we need to earn and maintain trust from our internal team, our larger community of contributors (and the open source community at large), as well as from our clients and customers. | ||
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| To earn that trust, we need to be deeply committed to always doing the right thing _for the sake of doing the right thing_. |
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This one is hazy for me still, because what is the "right" thing? Not that this value isn't great--it just seems a little vague still.
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I think this needs to stay general. The "right thing" means not cutting corners because "no one will ever know", or doing something wrong because there's no chance of getting caught. In general, it means, "I'm going to do the thing that I would want everyone else to do in this situation."
If we get too specific, we lose the spirit of it and end up with a list of dos and don'ts. This isn't meant to be a checklist or an enforceable rule; it's meant to be a question we ask ourselves before we make a decision. "Would I be willing to admit that I did this in public? Will I be proud of this choice? Would I be happy if someone in the community made the decision I'm about to make?"
Ultimately, the core value is integrity, like @jettig29 proposed at the Gathering. Does that make sense? Should this be clarified?
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| We will never judge, condescend, or exclude anyone. Instead, we will go above and beyond to support the community, through [pair programming](https://gatsby.app/pairing), offering [free swag for contributors](https://gatsby.app/swag), giving control to the community by [auto-inviting all contributors to the Gatsby GitHub org](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/7699#issuecomment-416665803), or any other means that empowers and embraces the incredible community that makes Gatsby possible. |
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Does it make sense to link to code of conduct somewhere here? Because the code of conduct is meant to create an inclusive and welcoming environment, which means that any behaviors that make others feel unwelcome are not tolerated, and a list of the behaviors we will not tolerate and how we manage them are defined in Code of Conduct.
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Excellent idea. I'll add that now.
This post dives into the process the Gatsby Inkteam followed to discuss and define our core values. It also lists out our core values and talks about how we plan to further embody them as Gatsby Inc continues to grow. closes #7761 <!-- Q. Which branch should I use for my pull request? A. Use `master` branch (probably). Q. Which branch if my change is an update to Gatsby v2? A. Definitely use `master` branch :) Q. Which branch if my change is an update to documentation or gatsbyjs.org? A. Use `master` branch. A Gatsby maintainer will copy your changes over to the `v1` branch for you Q. Which branch if my change is a bug fix for Gatsby v1? A. In this case, you should use the `v1` branch Q. Which branch if I'm still not sure? A. Use `master` branch. Ask in the PR if you're not sure and a Gatsby maintainer will be happy to help :) Note: We will only accept bug fixes for Gatsby v1. New features should be added to Gatsby v2. Learn more about contributing: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/how-to-contribute/ -->
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Yeah, that makes sense. My philosophical angst about what is right and
wrong doesn't need to get solved in this one blogpost lol.
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+As we wrote these out, we discussed them with the whole team to make sure we weren’t oversimplifying or losing the message behind anyone’s ideas.
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+At the end of the exercise, we’d extracted 8 shared core values, all of which the team is fully aligned on and deeply committed to.
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+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What we're doing at <a ***@***.***</a> this week: writing down what kind of company we want to be. <a href="https://t.co/N0SRaJXILS">pic.twitter.com/N0SRaJXILS</a></p>— Jason Lengstorf ***@***.***) <a href="https://twitter.com/jlengstorf/status/1032319257298628608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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+## What we learned — Gatsby’s core values
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+With our themes identified, we needed to polish our notes up into clear company values. Here’s what we settled on.
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+### Do the right thing when no one is looking
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+Companies live or die by the trust they build. Gatsby is an open source product, and that means we need to earn and maintain trust from our internal team, our larger community of contributors (and the open source community at large), as well as from our clients and customers.
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+To earn that trust, we need to be deeply committed to always doing the right thing _for the sake of doing the right thing_.
I think this needs to stay general. The "right thing" means not cutting
corners because "no one will ever know", or doing something wrong because
there's no chance of getting caught. In general, it means, "I'm going to do
the thing that I would want everyone else to do in this situation."
If we get too specific, we lose the spirit of it and end up with a list of
dos and don'ts. This isn't meant to be a checklist or an enforceable rule;
it's meant to be a question we ask ourselves before we make a decision.
"Would I be willing to admit that I did this in public? Will I be proud of
this choice? Would I be happy if someone in the community made the decision
I'm about to make?"
Ultimately, the core value is integrity, like @jettig29
<https://github.com/jettig29> proposed at the Gathering. Does that make
sense? Should this be clarified?
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This post dives into the process the Gatsby Inkteam followed to discuss and define our core values. It also lists out our core values and talks about how we plan to further embody them as Gatsby Inc continues to grow.
closes #7761