Re: Code of Conduct plan - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jan Claeys
Subject Re: Code of Conduct plan
Date
Msg-id d22c9f7f0671616a60e854fa13b81939f064f2ae.camel@janc.be
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In response to Re: Code of Conduct plan  (Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Code of Conduct plan
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On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 07:27 +0200, Chris Travers wrote:
> The real fear here is the code of conduct being co-opted as a weapon
> of world-wide culture war and that's what is driving a lot of the
> resistance here.  This is particularly an American problem here and
> it causes  a lot of resistance among people who were, until the
> second world war, subject to some pretty serious problems by colonial
> powers.

I don't see how this could happen any more than it already can, because
as far as I can tell the goal is not to discuss complaints in public;
the committee would handle cases in private.  And if committee members
would try to abuse their power, I'm pretty sure they would be removed.

> Putting a bunch of American lawyers, psychologists, sociologists,
> marketers etc on the board in the name of diversity would do way more
> harm than good.

I didn't say they have to be American, and I didn't say there has to be
a bunch of them.  I just said it would be good if there were also
people who aren't (just only) developers, DBAs or other very technical
people.


-- 
Jan Claeys


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