[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC FOR KS] CoC and Linus position (perhaps undocumented/closed/limited/invite session)

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 05:55:23 UTC 2018


Hey,

Allow me to open this large can of worms I find sitting in front of
me, I'm not sure where it came from and I certainly didn't own it last
week.

I'm unlikely to be able to produce a trip to Edinburgh (even Vancouver
might be touch and go, travel budgets and family commitments don't
always line up).

I think there might be place for a report from the people who did sign
off the CoC about the thoughts/process involved in updating it (and/or
urgency) to the rest of the Maintainer group.

Now I understand that having a public talk about such a thing will
likely descend into farce, there may be scope for something of a
Chatham House Rule style meeting, or just a non-recorded, non-public
session like we've done for sensitive subjects are previous kernel
summits.

It might just be a readout from a similar meeting at Edinburgh summit
(maybe someone else can propose that), or maybe some sort of Q&A
session. Maybe Linus could record a piece to camera for the
maintainers that can't make Edinburgh, but would still like to
understand where everything currently sits. Said piece would of course
be burned afterwards.

After the past 2-3 days I get the feeling there are maintainers unsure
about how this affects them and I think assuaging those fears might be
a good thing.

(Daniel and I have worked under the freedesktop CoC for graphics
projects for over a year now, so this actually doesn't affect me in
any way I haven't already considered over a year ago, when I
signed'off introducing a CoC to the drm subsystem).

I'm also equally happy nailing the lid back on the can of worms and
never discussing it again.

Dave.


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