Re: Code of Conduct plan

Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>

From: Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>, Jason Petersen <jason@citusdata.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-06-04T22:07:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
On 4 June 2018 at 17:53, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2018-Jun-05, Gavin Flower wrote:
> >> If we are all adults, then we don't need a CoC.
>
> > "We're all adults" is wishful thinking.  Some old people are just kids
> > who aged but didn't actually mature.
>
> I'm sure we'd all be ecstatic if the CoC committee never actually has
> anything to do.  The point of this exercise is to make new people ---
> particularly women and others who have often felt disadvantaged in
> technical communities --- feel safe and welcome here.
>
> Also: we *have* had cases where women who had been contributors left
> because of harassment, and I'd like to ensure that doesn't happen again.
>
>
+1000
Dave Cramer

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