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Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo

posted by CoolHand on Monday May 08 2017, @04:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the alzheimer's-coc dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday May 08 2017, @08:00PM (2 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday May 08 2017, @08:00PM (#506535) Homepage Journal

    The CoC may prevent the negative feedback needed to keep a project on track. And we all know how a positive feedback loop works in the long run..

    As long as reasonable people whose goal is the success of the project are executing/enforcing a CoC, that shouldn't be an issue. If someone with a different agenda is doing so, there may well be problems.

    If everyone acted professionally, and got involved to achieve a shared goal, clearly defined rules wouldn't be necessary. Sadly, there are often a few that can't or won't do so.

    Some people just needs to know that that their design or code just won't cut it.

    As I explicitly said, that sort of communication should be appropriate.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 08 2017, @08:51PM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday May 08 2017, @08:51PM (#506570) Journal

    As I explicitly said, that sort of communication should be appropriate.

    The problem is that some people just can't handle declined affirmation. Be it snowflake or someone with high position in a established company that just can't hack it that a 16 year old with pimples smack their fingers at security.

    As soon as there are rules. There will also be people that find all kinds of "bu-but you broke rule 2.4.34. section z five days ago!". In the larger society they are called lawyers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @10:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @10:04PM (#506614)

      > The problem is that some people just can't handle declined affirmation.

      I don't think you intended to go meta with your response.
      But you sure did.