Thank you for that clarification Stephen. I had wondered if the intended meaning was about the potential difficulties in self-policing, and thus value in outsourcing.
We (OBF) have discussed the idea of an ombudsperson or a reciprocal arrangement with a sister organisation to allow external handling if a complaint was about the project leadership. That gets very complicated. If our CoC chain of escalation comes to our board, my personal preference for dealing with any breach by a board member, is to leave this to rest of the board (rather than outsourcing). Peter On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 4:55 PM Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > Greetings, > > * Lyude Paul (ly...@redhat.com) wrote: > > Hi, X.org adopted a Code of Conduct a while ago. We haven't had to have an > > external entity handle things, so long as the people on the CoC team are > > not in > > positions like being secretary (where there could be a conflict of interest > > as a > > result). We also have members of the Code of Conduct team and the board go > > through CoC training courtesy of: > > > > https://otter.technology/code-of-conduct-training/ > > > > As well our CoC is here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct/ > > Nice! > > > I'm a little surprised by some projects here mentioning that OSS communities > > have no place handling a Code of Conduct, this was never even mentioned as > > something to worry about during my training. > > Please note that the post to this mailing list which you're alluding to > here was absolutely not from the PostgreSQL project, nor does the > PostgreSQL project feel that way as clearly demonstrated by our existing > CoC, which shows that we do handle the CoC (and, as a member of that > community, in my view the PG project does a good job at it). The > official PG CoC can be seen here: > > https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/coc/ > > Individuals are welcome to express their opinions on this public mailing > list, provided that they're respectful, but I would ask everyone to > please make sure you are not seen as speaking for a project when you are > actually voicing your own personal opinions. If you are, indeed, > speaking on behalf of a project, please also make that clear, to > hopefully avoid such confusion in the future. > > Thanks, > > Stephen _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
