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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @03:11AM
> making a CoC successful was dependent upon having reasonable people administering/enforcing such CoCs,
Fundamentally that is the basis of all governance. In that respect CoCs are no different from HOAs, professional organizations like the bar, or government.
Good governance takes dedication and work. Some people seem to think that its better that there be no governance. At best those people are just wishful thinkers, believing that some "invisible hand" will automagically produce good results - at worst, like the submitter, they are nihilists.