linux-kernel - Re: Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.

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Message-ID: <87zhwbj8xe.fsf@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Sep 2018 09:07:25 -0400
From:   fche@...hat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To:     Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Cc:     Edward Cree <ec429@...tab.net>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.

Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com> writes:

> [...]  The goal of the code of conduct is to make the community
> welcoming, and to help people with being a part of the Linux
> community.  [...]

That may well be the goal.  But the proper way to evaluate policy is not
the laudability of its goals but its forseeable and/or actual effects.
Is there any plan to evaluate the CoC empirically somehow to see if it
accomplishes what its proponents hope?

- FChE