[postgis-devel] Code of conduct page

[Paul Norman]

On 2023-05-12 4:52 p.m., Regina Obe wrote:
> Paul has put up the new website.
>
> https://postgis.net
>
> I was thinking we need a code of conduct page as required by OSGeo.  I plan
> to pattern it after the GEOS onehttps://libgeos.org/project/coc/   
>
> Except
> 1) Of course not talking about GEOS
> 2) Spelling out the name in the link instead of that annoying acronym
> 3) Have reporting go topsc at postgis.net   (similar to what QGIS does on
> theirs -
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/codeofcond
> uct.html
>
> Does anyone have issue with the above plan?


The GEOS COC defines doxing as "Posting (or threatening to post) other 
people’s personally identifying information". This has a serious issue 
we ran into with an OpenStreetMap Carto pull request 
<https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/4554/files/dde058f367721878e66cf5b7ee3cd72ed837b2d7#r889629148> 
- it does not differentiate between private information and public 
information, and disagrees with the dictionary definitions of doxing, 
which is about publishing private information. The below quote applies here

> As defined here, someone posting my name and location with my explicit 
> permission would be doxxing me, and thus prohibited. Additionally, 
> some users are publicly disclose their location in their profile. 
> These users are publicising certain information about themselves, and, 
> when relevant to an issue, I see no reason not to mention the 
> information they publish.
>
> When defining dox, Oxford and Wikipedia both include some notion of 
> the information being private and there normally being some malice. 
> The definition here has neither.
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