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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @10:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @10:58PM (#506648)

    I'm not too familiar with the kernel structure and the DRM within it. Are they an independent sub-function for which this CoC only applies to them, or did they put it on some central place with larger implications?

    Off-hand, this news sounds to me like, "I put my Terms and Conditions on my Facebook page. Facebook accepted them!" If they want to adopt a CoC then that is their choice, and if they want to publish notice of that in any reasonable location (including the Kernel documentation) then that's fine, too.

    If this is applying they have snuck a CoC into all of the Linux kernel development through some back-door channel... well, that's less than fine.