linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Call to Action Re: [PATCH 0/7] Code of Conduct: Fix some wording, and add an interpretation document

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Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:26:52 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Mishi Choudhary <mishi@...ux.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Call to Action Re: [PATCH 0/7] Code of
 Conduct: Fix some wording, and add an interpretation document

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 06:46:04PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Neil,
> 
> I disagree with your framing, and thus your analysis, and thus your
> proposed solution.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 07:26:06AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> > If, for example, Linus or Andrew said "if you cannot work with any given
> > maintainer, I will consider your patch directly, but you need to point
> > to where you tried, and why you failed - or to where the promise is
> > inadequate".
> > 
> > Currently if a maintainer is rude to you, there is no where else that
> > you can go and *that* is why it hurts.  It isn't the abuse so much as
> > the powerlessness associated with it.  If you can (metaphorically) say
> > to that maintainer "I don't care about your toilet mouth, you've just
> > given me the right to take my petition to caesar" - then the emotional
> > response will be quite different to pain.
> 
> No.  That's just not how things work.  Patches don't get rejected
> because maintainers are being rude.  Patches don't get accepted
> because they are not of a sufficiently high technical quality.

I once sent a bugfix and instead of applying it, the maintainer insulted
me and rejected it because the subject wasn't in imperative tense and
because I said "NULL dereference" instead of "NULL pointer dereference."

Ten years back there was a patch rejected because "F*** you, what do
women know about programming?"  I can't imagine it happening now, but I
was so shocked by it at the time also...

regards,
dan carpenter