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

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Oct 23 2018 - 02:05:17 EST


On 10/22/18 9:16 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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

Yes, that and the Samba URL are good.

And it's disappointing how patches from James are acked or reviewed on the
mailing lists and then mostly ignored (until the maintainer summit) while
other patches are merged into the mainline git tree.

It seems to be very one-sided.

--
~Randy