Re: Code of Conduct plan

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> So publishing a formal CoC at all is mainly meant to deal with weak
> points 1 and 2, and then the details of the process are there to try
> to fix point 3.
>
> Yeah, managing the committee is a lot of overhead that in an ideal
> world we wouldn't need, but I think we have to accept it to have a
> process people will have confidence in.

It's worth pointing out that the community has grown considerably in
the last ten years. I assume that adding a bit of process to deal with
these kinds of disputes is related to that.

We have a pretty good track record through totally informal standards
for behavior. Setting a good example is absolutely essential. While
that's still the most important thing, it doesn't seem particularly
scalable on its own.

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Peter Geoghegan