Re: Code of Conduct plan

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: James Keener <jim(at)jimkeener(dot)com>, Steve Litt <slitt(at)troubleshooters(dot)com>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Code of Conduct plan
Date: 2018-09-15 15:43:49
Message-ID: 20180915154349.GB4415@momjian.us
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:32:06AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> There is a risk that if we adopt a CoC, and nothing happens, and the
> committee does nothing, that they will feel like a failure, and get
> involved when it was best they did nothing. I think the CoC tries to
> address that, but nothing is perfect.

I think this is Parkinson's law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

We might want to put something in the next draft CoC saying that the
committee is a success if it does nothing.

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