linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 0/2] code of conduct fixes

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Date:   Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:12:57 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ksummit <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 0/2] code of conduct fixes

Hi!

> > Personally I'm not happy at all with how the new code of conduct was
> > rushed in, least because I still don't understand why it happened,
> > but also for all the other reasons we've discussed here in the past
> > few weeks.

These are exactly my thoughts.

> > But I also understand that there's lots of people (me included) who
> > don't want to ship a release with the code of conduct in it's current
> > in-between state. I think adding a disclaimer at the top, along the
> > lines of
> > 
> > "Please note that this code of conduct and it's enforcement are still
> > under discussion."
> 
> I don't disagree with the position, but eliminating our old code of
> conduct in favour of another we cast doubt on with this disclaimer
> effectively leaves us with nothing at all, which seems to be a worse
> situation.  In that case, I think reverting the CoC commit
> (8a104f8b5867c682) and then restarting the replacement process is
> better than adding a disclaimer to the new one.

Reverting it then having proper discussion sounds suitable to me.

(And it would be nice to have something on the mailing lists, too, as
I probably won't make it to kernel summit this year.)
									Pavel

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