Re: Code of Conduct plan
James Keener <jim@jimkeener.com>
From: James Keener <jim@jimkeener.com>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: Ilya Kosmodemiansky <ik@dataegret.com>,
Robert Eckhardt <reckhardt@pivotal.io>, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>,
Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>,
pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, pgsql-advocacy@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-09-14T14:52:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
> To many of us, we absolutely are a community. Remember, there are people > here who have been around for 20+ years, of which many have become close > friends, having started working on PostgreSQL as a hobby. We have always > seen the project as a community of like-minded technologists, and welcome > others that wish to join, whether just to ask a single question or to hang > around for the next 20 years. I do see your viewpoint, but I would counter > that coming here for help (for example) is quite different from calling > tech support at a vendor. > I fail to see how that makes everyone here part of a community anymore than I'm part of the "community" of regulars at a bar I walk into for the first time. As I said, the rules can and should apply within the list, but applying them outside the list is odd and wreaks of authoritarianism. Jim