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: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday May 09 2017, @07:28AM (1 child)
I think the art is what the code accomplish.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday May 09 2017, @07:39AM
Now we're really going meta :)
What I was trying to get at is that if you get bitched out for lousy code, it's probably easy to take it personally because it's a reflection on yourself. Whether the code is bad because of inexperience, laziness or downright incompetence, in many cases the criticism will not be perceived objectively regardless of how PC it was phrased. Offense isn't just given, it also has to be taken.