On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So publishing a formal CoC at all is mainly meant to deal with weak > points 1 and 2, and then the details of the process are there to try > to fix point 3. > > Yeah, managing the committee is a lot of overhead that in an ideal > world we wouldn't need, but I think we have to accept it to have a > process people will have confidence in. It's worth pointing out that the community has grown considerably in the last ten years. I assume that adding a bit of process to deal with these kinds of disputes is related to that. We have a pretty good track record through totally informal standards for behavior. Setting a good example is absolutely essential. While that's still the most important thing, it doesn't seem particularly scalable on its own. -- Peter Geoghegan
