Re: Code of Conduct plan

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:41 PM, James Keener <jim(at)jimkeener(dot)com> wrote:

> > Community is people who joined it
>
> We're not a "community." We're people using email to get help with or
> discuss technical aspects of PostgreSQL. The types of discussions that
> would normally be held within a "community" would be entirely off-topic
> here. We should be professional to each other here; we don't need to be
> buddies. There is a clear difference between "professionalism" and
> "community". A document governing interactions on this list is within the
> right of the moderation, but leaking into the "real world" is an
> abomination and perversion of what this group is.
>

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.

>
> My church group is 100% within their right to kick me out of teaching
> Sunday School if I were to have an affair. Teaching Sunday School is an act
> taking place as part of a community of people with a shared belief and
> culture. My job would 100% not be within their right to fire me for having
> an affair, as it's not a community, but a professional environment and my
> personal life is just that: personal. (Baring an ethics clauses signed when
> joining, I guess?)
>

> Jim
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Ilya Kosmodemiansky <ik(at)dataegret(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 14. Sep 2018, at 16:17, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The lists are just one of many different ways people in this community
>> interact.
>>
>>
>> I could only heavily +1 this. I can get from where comes the idea that
>> community is only what happens just on postgresql.org or just on some
>> other channel community uses. Community is people who joined it and CoC
>> supposed to apply even if people use analogue telephones. This is about
>> communication, not about communication channels.
>>
>>
>>
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>

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