Re: Code of Conduct plan

Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey(at)proteus-tech(dot)com> writes:
> Is there some archive of the discussion that brought on this effort and the
> considerations of the committee itself? I wish I had seen the earlier
> announcements in 2016 as I would have definitely participated.

If you poke around in our mailing list archives for early 2016 (Jan/Feb),
you'll find a number of threads about it. Mostly on the -general list,
IIRC.

> Another more specific factual question - have there been incidents within
> the active Postgresql community where behaviour by individuals who are
> participants in the community have conducted themselves in a manner that
> brought on the actual need for such a code of conduct to exist in the first
> place?

I believe there were a couple of unfortunate incidents at conferences.
Now, conferences are generally expected to have their own CoCs and enforce
them themselves; this CoC is meant more to cover on-line interactions.
You could argue that we shouldn't create such a CoC until something bad
happens on-line; but I'd prefer to think that having a CoC might prevent
that from ever happening at all, which is surely better.

In any case, we went over all these sorts of arguments at excruciating
length in 2016. It's quite clear to the core team that a majority of
the community wants a CoC. I don't think any useful purpose will be
served by re-litigating that point.

regards, tom lane