Re: Code of Conduct plan

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.:-)