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posted by takyon on Monday October 22 2018, @06:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the reptilian-replacement dept.

ZDNet:

At Open Source Summit Europe in Scotland, Linus Torvalds is meeting with Linux's top 40 or so developers at the Maintainers' Summit. This is his first step back in taking over Linux's reins.

A little over a month ago, Torvalds stepped back from running the Linux development community. In a note to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds said, "I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely. I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately."

That time is over. Torvalds is back.

He's a quick study if it only took him a month to learn how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately.

See also: Linus Torvalds is back at Linux while GNU's Stallman unveils a "kindness" policy

Previously: Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership
More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership
Eric S. Raymond Speaks in Regards to the Linux Code of Conduct [Updated]


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:32AM (#752418)

    1. Infiltrate $target_group
    2. Get $target_group to accept innocuous looking CoC
    3. Threaten $key_members of $target_group with exposure of their little peccadillos which run afoul of the CoC
    4. Gain Puppetmaster control of $target_group through $key_members
    5. Profit.

    The game is to establish potential control mechanisms, and we're not talking about dealing with the Boy Scouts here, or are you all still thinking that the people behind these CoCs are the muppetoids that visibly and noisily espouse them?

    Do you really think the sort of muppetoid that bleats about CoCs being necessary in coding projects actually cares about either coding or the project?, they're just the risibly obvious little wind-up infective agents, keys wound tight then let loose, infecting and weakening the system...any system, they don't care.

    Why yes, my hat is most assuredly tin-foiley and shiny..double lined for reasons I'd love to tell you all about, but which might bother the DSMA a bit..

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:13PM (#752536)

    I read the thing. You are a crazy nerd raging fool. Most/all of the board AND Linus agreed the CoC was a good move. They even amended some of the vague phrasing.

    I reviewed some of the controversies and what i saw were asdholes wanting to not be called out for being assholes. Cry me a river, this is like all the bigots crying hard about being called racist and imagining that "the left" is coming to get them. Go be crazy somewhere else, or at least gather some evidence if you wanna cry foul.