On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:14 AM, Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be> wrote: > 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. >
Right. I think the fears are overblown but you do have to remember that we started this whole public side of the process when there was a real effort by some in around open source to push contributor codes of conducts that were expressly political (the Contributor Covenant for example) and in the wake of Opalgate. I do not doubt that at some point we will face the same. I don't doubt that such efforts will be unsuccessful. But I do think they will put the project through some public controversy and grief and so we are best off to try to minimize the attack surface. > > > 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. > Ok I get what your concern is now. I am not sure the formal qualifications matter but I would agree that the committee needs to be staffed with people we trust to be good "people people" rather than good "tech people." > > > -- > Jan Claeys > > -- Best Wishes, Chris Travers Efficito: Hosted Accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in. http://www.efficito.com/learn_more
