Re: Code of Conduct plan

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 11:36 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
wrote:

> On 06/05/2018 09:32 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> James Keener <jim@jimkeener.com> writes:
>>
>>> I don't participate too much here, but I've never see a group implement
>>> a code of conduct go well.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, personally I'm a bit worried about this too.  The proposed CoC
>> does contain provisions to try to prevent misusing it, but whether those
>> are strong enough remains to be seen --- and it'll depend a good deal
>> on the judgment of the committee members.  We have a provision in there
>> for periodic review of the CoC, and it'll be important to adjust it if
>> we see abuses.
>>
>
> A community that has an exceedingly reasonable and popular CoC is Ubuntu:
>
> https://www.ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct
>


> A community that is the most successful open project in history and didn't
> need a CoC is the Linux kernel project. I'd say we more better resemble the
> later than the former.:-)
>