Re: What another group does (was Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?)

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:
> As I said in a
> recent IETF plenary, the organization works partly because at the IETF
> you don't need anyone's permission to try something; you don't even
> need forgiveness. The worst that can happen is that people reject the
> proposal. It always seemed to me that the Postgres project worked in
> a similar way, so I'd encourage those who think there is a problem to
> be solved to make a scratch proposal and see whether it flies. It's
> always easier to discuss a concrete proposal than to try to figure out
> whether something is a good idea in the abstract. The shorter and
> easier to understand the proposal is, I think, the more useful it is
> likely to be.

+1