Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 1/2] code-of-conduct: Fix the ambiguity about collecting email addresses

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 15:32:51 EST


Em Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:37:59 +1000
Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 08:56, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 08:25:35AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > > This isn't a legally binding license or anything, but departing from
> > > the upstream wording makes it tricker to merge new upstream versions
> > > if they are considered appropriate.
> >
> > Nicely done, that - gotta love the passive voice use. Considered appropriate
> > *by* *whom*?
>
> Good question, do we have a CoC maintainer? Is Linus it, Greg, TAB?
>
> Maybe step one is to find the person who can make changes to the
> kernel CoC (has anyone checked if Linus or Greg will merge this).

If we add it to the MAINTAINERS file (with makes perfect sense to me),
I would like to have a R: entry there, in order to be notified when
people propose changes to it. My personal understanding is that it may
have legal value under the legislation of the Country I live, and I'd
like to understand changes there that might affect my workflow.

Thanks,
Mauro