On 09/14/2018 07:14 AM, Dave Page wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com
<mailto:j...@commandprompt.com>> wrote:
On 09/14/2018 01:31 AM, Chris Travers wrote:
I apologize for the glacial slowness with which this has all
been moving.
The core team has now agreed to some revisions to the draft
CoC based on
the comments in this thread; see
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct
<https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct>
(That's the updated text, but you can use the diff tool on
the page
history tab to see the changes from the previous draft.)
I really have to object to this addition:
"This Code is meant to cover all interaction between community
members, whether or not it takes place within postgresql.org
<http://postgresql.org> infrastructure, so long as there is not
another Code of Conduct that takes precedence (such as a
conference's Code of Conduct)."
That covers things like public twitter messages over live
political controversies which might not be personally directed.
At least if one is going to go that route, one ought to *also*
include a safe harbor for non-personally-directed discussions of
philosophy, social issues, and politics. Otherwise, I think this
is asking for trouble. See, for example, what happened with
Opalgate and how this could be seen to encourage use of this to
silence political controversies unrelated to PostgreSQL.
I think this is a complicated issue. On the one hand,
postgresql.org <http://postgresql.org> has no business telling
people how to act outside of postgresql.org
<http://postgresql.org>. Full stop.
I'm going to regret jumping in here, but...
I disagree. If a community member decides to join forums for other
software and then strongly promotes PostgreSQL to the point that they
become abusive or offensive to people making other software choices,
then they are clearly bringing the project into disrepute and we
should have every right to sanction them by preventing them
participating in our project in whatever ways are deemed appropriate.
We all know that PostgreSQL is the only database we should use and
anybody using a different one just hasn't been enlightened yet. :P
I think we need to define community member. I absolutely see your point
of the individual is a contributor but community member is rather
ethereal in this context don't you think?
JD
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