On 01/05/2016 05:31 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
Well, that highlights that it's not just about a CoC, it's the things that surround it. Especially what the conflict resolution policy is. I suspect JD thought about this because of a recent Facebook thread[1] about how the FreeBSD community just screwed this up big-time[2]. The big screw-up was not having solid ways to deal with such complaints in place. Sadly, as part of that thread, it comes to light that there is some history of this in the Postgres project as well.
The Facebook post was the secondary catalyst. The primary one was discussions I have had on twitter about CoCs as well as continual work with various conferences.
What I'd love to see is support and commitment from the Postgres community to actively attract people who will focus not on the code but on building the community itself. I know there are people in the community that would be interested in doing that, but without active support and some encouragement things aren't going to change.
Since the first PostgreSQL Conference East in Maryland, I have requested this. A good portion of the keynote was about this. For some reason our community doesn't show a lot of interest.
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