[Tech-board-discuss] [Ksummit-discuss] TAB non-nomination

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 14:03 -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 10:52:55AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > > > The third mistake was dumping the fully formed CoC and a later update
> > > > into the tree with little to no community input

I agree with this statement.

> So what was done with the update to the CoC was that a proposed set of
> changes was sent out to the top 200 or so contributors to the kernel,
> by git statistics over the past year, asking for their comments and
> their sign-offs.

I believe that did not happen as described as at least
I was not asked for input/comment/sign-off and I am
well within that top 200 or so list.

> So there *was* community input, and that input did
> result in changes to the CoC update.
> 
> Could there be a better process?  I think we're all open to input.  If
> someone would like to suggest a better way to handle things, that
> would be great.

Open posting of suggested changes with a waiting
period for comment of at least a week.