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

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Message-Id: <20180925154101.e13613306da9c0e7408771b6@christoph-conrads.name>
Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:41:01 +0200
From:   Christoph Conrads <contact@...istoph-conrads.name>
To:     esr@...rsus.com
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, 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.

Dear Eric,

> > The CoC is a political document:
> > https://web.archive.org/web/20180924234027/https://twitter.com/coralineada/status/1041465346656530432
> 
> And there is no level on which this is anything but bad.
> 
> The kernel devs are a very large, very diverse, multi-national, multi-cultural
> group. We have nothing to gain by getting entangled with political culture
> wars, and everything to lose.

In this context, I want to mention the tweet by the CoC author from
August 29, 2018 [1]:

> All software is political.

This tweet was posted as a response to your article "Non-discrimination
is a core value of open source" stating that politics should be kept
separate from work (in an open source community):

> The Lerna project’s choice is, moreover, destructive of one of the deep
> norms that keeps the open-source community functional – keeping
> politics separated from our work. If we do not maintain that norm, we
> risk fractionating into a collection of squabbling tribes arguing
> particularisms and unable to sustain really large-scale cooperation.

[1]
https://web.archive.org/web/20180925132931/https:/twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1035009876152467456
[2] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8106

Sincerely
Christoph Conrads