Last week, Phoronix broke a story about the kernel DRM group over at FreeDesktop.org submitting a pull request for their code of conduct to be included in the kernel docs for the DRM subsystem. The next day it was merged.
I'm particularly interested in if they think this will keep Linus from saying hurtful things to them over lousy code. Discuss.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Monday May 08 2017, @05:17PM (8 children)
No. Linux can say hurtful things all he wants, and the DRM people can shove it. If they want Linus to honor their pull requests, they have to put up with him, for better or for worse. But within their own little group, they're free to have their own code of conduct, which they can enforce on their members. Linus isn't a member of their group, so it doesn't apply to him.
(Score: 1) by bart on Monday May 08 2017, @05:35PM (3 children)
I wonder how often Linus gets called Linux :-)
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @06:05PM (1 child)
It would have been funny if Linus had named his kernel "Freeix" like he wanted, and everyone called him Fritz Torvalds instead.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday May 08 2017, @11:18PM
Thanks alot man. You gave me a complex! Now every time I hear the words "Fritz Torvalds" I break down in hysterical laughter. You fucked me up man! WTF? Seriously!
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @06:42PM
Maybe less often then I see people referring to Linux as Linus where I work. That happens practically every day.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 08 2017, @05:39PM (1 child)
They still have to interact with other groups code and interfaces which can result in "your code sucks!" and Linus can probably "Haven't been fixed for 8 months, removed from repository!" ;-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:32PM
If he's going to start pulling buggy code from the repository that hasn't been fixed for eight months (or heck, eight years), there won't be a whole lot of code left.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Monday May 08 2017, @05:43PM (1 child)
Is Linus a contributor to FreeDesktop.org code? If not, then would its code of conduct apply?
Linus could be a bit more diplomatic. Like saying, that code, between lines 1191 and 1268 is the largest steaming pile of festering putrid goat vomit I have ever seen. By applying more best practices I believe it could be improved, perhaps all the way up to the level of rotting bovine carcasses. Please tweak and resubmit your patch. Thank you for your efforts.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by VLM on Monday May 08 2017, @06:51PM
That looks acceptable as per a careful read of
http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/ [contributor-covenant.org]
I believe that was very carefully written. For example referring to goat fuckers would not fly, but carefully referencing goat vomit instead is all good.
The leftist types have a pretty severe arrogance problem. I joined the military not long after it was not allowed for drill sgts to hit recruits or swear, and being rather intelligent they pretty much had free reign although technically they never did anything wrong by the letter of the law. It should be fairly trivial to maintain operations inside a politically restrictive speech code.
Obviously the point of these codes is entryism, to issue version 2.0 containing mandatory "workers of the world unite" commentary, anti-white anti-male hatred coded into the covenant, etc. But for today they're pretty lame.
My gut level guess is the main effect of attempts at entryism will be dual licensing and the death of the GPL licensed code owned by a project. The code is mine, all mine, exclusively mine, and I dual license it under the GPL as a favor, but attempt a political takeover or political fork and you'll be in violation of trademark law etc.
I remember in the 80s learning about GPL for the first time and shareware and BSDs and all that and thinking by 2020 on sheer numbers most source code isn't going to be in English its going to be Chinese so what am I going to do? However for whatever social and IQ reasons the demographics of FOSS contributors has nothing to do with the demographics of the world or computer users or computer owners. Its like a cultural appropriation thing for them to get into FOSS.