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

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:52:34 +0000
Martin Mueller <martinmueller@northwestern.edu> wrote:

... The overreach is dubious on both practical and theoretical grounds. "Stick to your knitting " or the KISS principle seem good advice in this context. 

Moderated mailing lists ain't been broken all these years, therefore they need fixing. Obviously.

Folks,

At this point it is important to accept that the CoC is happening. We aren't going to stop that. The goal now is to insure a CoC that is equitable for all community members and that has appropriate accountability. At hand it appears that major concern is the CoC trying to be authoritative outside of community channels. As well as wording that is a bit far reaching. Specifically I think people's main concern is these two sentences:

"To that end, we have established this Code of Conduct for community interaction and participation in the project’s work and the community at large. This Code is meant to cover all interaction between community members, whether or not it takes place within postgresql.org infrastructure, so long as there is not another Code of Conduct that takes precedence (such as a conference's Code of Conduct)."

If we can constructively provide feedback about those two sentences, great (or constructive feedback on other areas of the CoC). If we can't then this thread needs to stop. It has become unproductive.

My feedback is that those two sentences provide an overarching authority that .Org does not have the right to enforce and that it is also largely redundant because we allow that the idea that if another CoC exists, then ours doesn't apply. Well every single major collaboration channel we would be concerned with (including something like Blogger) has its own CoC within its Terms of use. That effectively neuters the PostgreSQL CoC within places like Slack, Facebook, Twitter etc...

JD

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