Re: Code of Conduct plan
On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 07:27 +0200, Chris Travers wrote: > The real fear here is the code of conduct being co-opted as a weapon > of world-wide culture war and that's what is driving a lot of the > resistance here. This is particularly an American problem here and > it causes a lot of resistance among people who were, until the > second world war, subject to some pretty serious problems by colonial > powers. I don't see how this could happen any more than it already can, because as far as I can tell the goal is not to discuss complaints in public; the committee would handle cases in private. And if committee members would try to abuse their power, I'm pretty sure they would be removed. > Putting a bunch of American lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, > marketers etc on the board in the name of diversity would do way more > harm than good. I didn't say they have to be American, and I didn't say there has to be a bunch of them. I just said it would be good if there were also people who aren't (just only) developers, DBAs or other very technical people. -- Jan Claeys
Re: Code of Conduct plan
On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 16:45 +0200, Chris Travers wrote: > If I may suggest: The committee should be international as well > and include people from around the world. The last thing we want is > for it to be dominated by people from one particular cultural > viewpoint. Being international/intercultural certainly has some value, but I think it's at least as useful to have people with different competencies and professional backgrounds. For example: having some people who have a background in something like psychology, sociology, education, law, human resources, marketing, etc. (in addition to the likely much easier to find developers, DBAs and IT managers) would be valuable too. -- Jan Claeys
Re: Enhancement to psql command, feedback.
On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 08:36 -0500, John McKown wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:05 AM, Pavel Stehule > <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > These languages has defined # as line comment. It is not true for > > SQL. > > Thanks, that looks like a "NO" vote to me. > Not necessarily. There are other languages which don't use "#" for comments, but ignore a first line when it starts with "#" or when you add a specific command line option. -- Jan Claeys
