From 4a28647646e267424ea6f84f560231e7aea52020 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trask Stalnaker Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 17:30:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Follow-up edits to mission-vision-values.md --- mission-vision-values.md | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mission-vision-values.md b/mission-vision-values.md index d688deb2..38bd02ec 100644 --- a/mission-vision-values.md +++ b/mission-vision-values.md @@ -139,14 +139,13 @@ other community members. It’s no secret that a good number of maintainers of the project are employed by companies with commercial interests in OpenTelemetry, especially vendors in the observability space. That said, we expect community members to act in the best -interests of the project. Each member’s priorities can (and should!) align with -those of their employers so that the relationship is beneficial to all parties, -but when acting as a maintainer or contributor to the project, community members -are expected to wear the project’s hat. +interests of the project. Each member’s priorities when acting as a maintainer +or contributor for the project should represent the interests of the project +and its community first before their other obligations (e.g. employer). ### Disclose potential conflicts of interest -Even within the project, people might have different hats: a Collector +Even within the project, people may have different hats: a Collector maintainer might be part of the Governance Committee, a JavaScript maintainer might be part of the Technical Committee, and so on. When the context of your message can be ambiguous, make it clear which hat you are using. For instance,