[Being on the return from Hawaii I'm late with everything, so please
don't be surprised if I answer to stuff that has already been
discussed to death.]
> The preamble and intent is one thing; adding a corrective committee
> with the authority to enact punishments based on anonymous reports
> is another. It implements hierarchies and institutions exerting
> coercive power based on incomplete and secret information. That is
> inherently an entity offering an opportunity for "pulling strings".
> I am not really a fan of constructs with a life and dynamics of
> their own.
Indeed. Norbert Preining, one of the TeXLive maintainers (I know him
personally) and maintainer of TeXLive in Debian, was victim of exactly
such a process.[1] He got banned being a Debian developer, and it was
never explicitly explained to him why.
So what about having a CoC without the 'corrective committee'? Up to
now this worked quite nicely.
Werner
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.html
