On 22 January 2016 at 05:25, David E. Wheeler <da...@justatheory.com> wrote: > I can’t help that there are a whole lot of white guys working on this > document, with very little feedback from the people who it’s likely to > benefit (only exception I spotted in a quick scan was Regina; sorry if I > missed you). I suspect that most of you, like me, have never been the target > of the kinds os behaviors we want to forbid.
Others have addressed the reasons for not going with the Covenant; however I would like to make the point that, just because I'm a white straight male, it doesn't mean that there haven't been occasions when I have suffered from prejudice: I didn't talk the right way, my parents didn't have enough money, I'm too geeky, I wore the wrong clothes, I have a name that was a double-gift for mean kids (UK readers will remember Rainbow, I expect) etc etc etc. Admittedly most of that has faded since childhood but there have been aspects of it even in places I have worked as an adult (thankfully not where I am now) and we don't even have recourse to the legal avenues that have been created for racial and sexual discrimination; it's probably one of the reasons that geeks find ourselves in these tech-based online communities so often - there's so little chance of being bullied by the cool kids. I also have a feeling that that might have something to do with why there's quite such a pushback against the type of person who shouts loudly and motivates others to form a mob to get his or her own way (and therefore why the covenant is unlikely to gain traction here). Finally, to open a new thread and effectively say "you know the work that you guys have put in over the last month, I'm sure it's fine, and I haven't bothered to read the whole thread, but why don't you do it Right instead?" is pretty insulting, don't you think? Geoff -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
