Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] Zero ****s, hugload of hugs <3

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Nov 30 2018 - 17:15:08 EST


On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:12:19 -0800
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As a maintainer myself (and based on somewhat disturbed feedback from
> other maintainers) I can only make the conclusion that nobody knows what
> the responsibility part here means.
>
> I would interpret, if I read it like at lawyer at least, that even for
> existing code you would need to do the changes postmorterm.
>
> Is this wrong interpretation? Should I conclude that I made a mistake
> by reading the CoC and trying to understand what it *actually* says?
> After this discussion, I can say that I understand it less than before.

Have you read Documentation/process/code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst?
As has been pointed out, it contains a clear answer to how things should
be interpreted here.

Thanks,

jon