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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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A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Monday May 08 2017, @08:59PM (3 children)
This was in the PR:
Small supplementary pull request. I didn't want anyone saying we snuck
this in in a the middle of a big pile of changes, so here is a clearly
separate pull request documenting the code of conduct introduced for
freedesktop.org and how it relates to dri-devel community.
In other words, they want their own lil safe space and Linus didn't give a shit because the code was right. He was the one that let it in as an independent pull request [iu.edu] that only included that intro [github.com]. So if it's an agenda on their part Linus is pretty fucking stupid to not see it given that it was its own PR and he never misses things even with massive patches. So you know he's aware of what it is. If he ends up being that stupid then maybe he shouldn't be a maintainer anymore. Except he's not stupid.
By the way I'm getting real tired of having to do my own research for topics because there's something obviously reactionary and fucky about a summary. Because people don't know how to be objective. Fuckin stawp, I legit love you guys.
Granted, easy for me to say that. I stopped caring about open source as much as I used to partly because of this stuff.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @10:08PM
By the way I'm getting real tired of having to do my own research for topics because there's something obviously reactionary and fucky about a summary.
Look who the submitter is.
Apparently the editors are big on "fool me once, shame on you, fool me over and over again, suck it up buttercup!"
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Monday May 08 2017, @10:14PM
> [...] having to do my own research for topics because there's something obviously reactionary and fucky about a summary.
The phoronix.com article has a link to the pull request (around "pull request, which can be found here").
(Score: 1) by oakgrove on Tuesday May 09 2017, @07:20PM
caring about open source as much as I used to partly because of this stuff.
You and me both. I used to be a huge supporter of free software monetarily and otherwise now I wouldn't spit on something gpl, bad, apache, or mit licensed if its asshole was on fire.