Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [GIT PULL] code of conduct fixes for 4.19-rc8

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 22:10 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 01:15:14PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > This is the series of patches which has been discussed on both ksummit-
> > discuss and linux-kernel for the past few weeks.  As Shuah said when
> > kicking off the process, it's designed as a starting point for the next
> > phase of the discussion, not as the end point, so it's only really a
> > set of minor updates to further that goal.
> > 
> > The merger of the three patches to show the combined effect is attached
> > below.  However, Greg recently posted the next phase of the discussion,
> > so people will be asking what the merger of the series looks like. 
> > Ignoring the non-CoC documents, I think it looks like this
> 
> Sorry for not responding sooner for this, travel and the meeting today
> took up my time.
> 
> Anyway, as we discussed today in the Maintainers summit, let's leave the
> Code of Conduct text alone for now.  It matches what "upstream" has with
> the exception of removing that one paragraph.  If you have issues with
> the wording in it, please work with upstream to fix the issues there as
> hundreds of other projects will benefit with your changes if they are
> really needed.

Given the different development models, that's not
a very compelling argument.

As James Bottomley has suggested multiple times,
I'd much rather kernel development use the debian
code of conduct verbatim than even this modified one.

https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct