[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC FOR KS] CoC and Linus position (perhaps undocumented/closed/limited/invite session)
Luck, Tony
tony.luck at intel.com
Wed Sep 19 20:10:15 UTC 2018
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:55:52PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> After re-reading it, I'm pretty sure that, the way it is, publishing
> e-mails violate this CoC.
>
> The thing is that, when it uses the commas there:
>
> "private information, such as a physical or electronic address,"
>
> The commas actually defines what "private information" is. Even if
> this would be changed by "foo information", what we have here is actually two
> English sentences that were merged together:
>
> First sentence:
> "Private information, such as a physical or electronic address."
>
> Second sentence:
> "Publishing others’ private information without explicit permission"
>
> See, replace it by foo at the original text:
> "Publishing others’ *foo* information, such as a physical
> or electronic address, without explicit permission"
>
> You'll see that "*foo* information" becomes defined.
So perhaps we can move on to discussing a patch to fix it?
diff --git a/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst b/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst
index ab7c24b5478c..ec99a17ab646 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst
@@ -31,10 +31,13 @@ Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
* Public or private harassment
* Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic
- address, without explicit permission
+ address[1], without explicit permission
* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
professional setting
+[1] Note that e-mail addresses used on public mailing lists are not
+considered to be private information and can (in fact should) be used
+to give credit in Reported-by, Acked-by, Tested-by etc. tags.
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