What counts as foul language has changed a great deal in the last two decades. You could always tie it to what is printable in the New York Times, but that too is changing. I could live with something like “Be considerate, and if you can’t be nice, be at least civil”.
From: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@gmail.com> Date: Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 11:12 AM To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>, James Keener <jim@jimkeener.com>, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>, "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Re: Code of Conduct plan
How about we just simplify the code of conduct to the following: Any member in the various PostgreSQL lists is expected to maintain respect to others and not use foul language. A variation from the previous sentence shall be considered a violation of the CoC.
On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:51 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: > There is a risk that if we adopt a CoC, and nothing happens, and the > committee does nothing, that they will feel like a failure, and get > involved when it was best they did nothing. I think the CoC tries to > address that, but nothing is perfect.
Yeah, a busybody CoC committee could do more harm than good. The way the CoC tries to address that is that the committee can't initiate action of its own accord: somebody has to bring it a complaint.
Of course, a member of the committee could go out and find a "problem" and then file a complaint --- but then they'd have to recuse themselves from dealing with that complaint, so there's an incentive not to.
