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Code of Conduct Committee: 2021 Annual Report

Delivered: February 10, 2022

The PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee presents this report of its activities for the calendar year 2021.

The following individuals served on the Committee during the year, and are continuing on the Committee for 2022:

  • Jeanette Bromage
  • Anastasia Lubennikova
  • Michael Goldberg
  • Umair Shahid, Chair

The following individuals served on the Committee through October 31, 2021:

  • Stacey Haysler
  • Carole Arnaud
  • Fábio Telles Rodriguez

The following individuals served on the Committee beginning October 1, 2021:

  • Ilaria Battiston
  • Lucie Šimečková
  • Stefan Fercot

In the period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021, the Committee received the following reports:

  • Inappropriate conduct on community channels: 4

The results of the investigations:

  • Education and coaching: 1
  • Corrective action taken: 1
  • Temporary ban from community resources: 0
  • Permanent ban from community resources: 0
  • No finding of policy violation: 1
  • Not within the Committee’s jurisdiction: 0
  • Investigation ongoing as of December 31, 2021: 1

The Code of Conduct has been translated to Chinese, French, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian. We would like to thank everyone who participated to those translations.

If you have any comments or questions about this report, you can contact the Committee via email at coc@lists.postgresql.org.

We would like to thank the Core Team for their cooperation and support of the Committee’s work, and the community members who continue to uphold the professional standards of the PostgreSQL Community and create an accessible and cooperative environment for all users.

Code of Conduct Committee Applicants: 2018—2021

Gender 2021 2020 2019 2018
Total Applicants 7 18 12 14
Female 2 3 3 2
Male 5 15 9 12
Nonbinary 0 0 0 0
Geography - Country 2021 2020 2019 2018
Argentina 0 2 1 0
Belgium 1 1 0 0
Brazil 0 1 0 0
China 0 1 0 0
Colombia 0 0 1 0
Czech Republic 1 0 0 0
Dubai 0 1 0
France 1 0 1 3
Germany 1 0 0 1
India 1 1 1 0
Indonesia 0 1 0 0
Israel 0 1 0 0
Italy 0 0 1 1
Netherlands 0 0 0 1
Pakistan 0 1 2 0
Russian Federation 0 2 0 1
Singapore 1 1 0 0
Slovakia 0 1 1 0
Spain 0 0 1 0
Turkey 0 1 0 0
Ukraine 0 1 1 0
United Kingdom 0 2 0 0
United States 1 2 2 10

Code of Conduct Committee Members 2018—2021:

Gender 2021 2020 2019 2018
Total Members 10 8 5 5
Female 6 4 2 2
Male 4 4 3 3
Nonbinary 0 0 0 0
Geography - Country 2021 2020 2019 2018
Belgium 1 0 0 0
Brazil 1 1 0 0
Czech Republic 1 0 0 0
France 1 1 1 2
Germany 1 0 1 1
Israel 1 1 0 0
Pakistan 1 1 1 0
Russian Federation 1 1 1 1
United Kingdom 1 1 0 0
United States 1 2 2 3