# Code of conduct

SimurgArray is a small scientific project. People who use it or contribute to it come from many fields, countries
and levels of experience. This page says how we treat each other here.

## Expected

* Be kind and assume good faith. Most disagreements are about evidence, so bring evidence.
* Criticise code, results and ideas, never people.
* Be patient with newcomers; everyone met their first cluster file once.
* Credit other people's work, including open source projects and papers.
* Respect privacy. Never post genetic data, sample identifiers of real people, or anyone's personal information.

## Not accepted

* Harassment, insults, threats, or discriminatory jokes and language, in any form.
* Sexualised language or imagery.
* Publishing someone else's private information without permission.
* Repeatedly derailing discussions or ignoring a request to stop.

## Scope

This applies to issues, pull requests, commit messages, documentation and any other space of the project, and to
anyone representing the project elsewhere.

## Enforcement

Report problems privately to the maintainer through the contact details on https://gitea.yaylali.uk/kemal. Reports
are handled confidentially. The maintainer may edit or remove contributions and may block people who do not follow
this code, starting with a private warning where that is reasonable.