Thread: Linus Torvalds temporarily stepped down from the Linux kernel, and the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board pushed a new Code of Conduct. Can we trust them to change? I don't believe we can unless they publish transparency reports: https://otter.technology/blog/2018/09/20/linux-kernel-hastily-adopts-standard-code-of-conduct/ …
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Recently, Linus Torvalds announced he was taking a temporary leave of absence to "take a break to get help on how to behave differently". Turns out it was in response to a reporter's questions about this article on the verbal abuse and sexism in Linux:https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/after-years-of-abusive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside …
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The Linux Foundation and Linus was contacted for comments, which allowed them time to put a really great PR spin on the article. Linus announced he was stepping down temporarily, and handed control over to Greg Kroah-Hartman: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167 …
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The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board pushed through a hasty commit to change their "Code of Conflict" over to the standard Contributor's Covenant: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f …
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The Linux kernel community's change from the Code of Conflict to a standard Code of Conduct was only acked by 6 out of 10 members of the Linux Foundation Technical advisory board:https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/technical-advisory-board/ …
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That's a lot fewer people that reviewed the first Code of Conflict, which had over 60 community members sign off on it. I wonder whether the change was discussed at all with the community outside the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/CodeOfConflict?id=ddbd2b7ad99a418c60397901a0f3c997d030c65e …
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The new Code of Conduct explicitly says discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex or gender is not allowed. One Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board member who did not sign off on the patch is Ted Tso, who is a rape apologist:http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Rape_apology_on_LCA_mailing_list …
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Yikes, I just read the comments and it is all troll, no substance... I appreciate all the time and work you put into this thread, thank you so much for giving us context around all the changes at the Linux foundation as well as caveats and misgivings to the PR stunt going on...
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