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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Would you make a report about a sexist comment to a Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board board that includes a member who has dismissed rape because "the perpetrator did not threaten to harm or kill the victim" or people were "plied with alcohol"? Nope, I didn't think so.
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Say someone wants to make a Linux kernel Code of Conduct report, and they believe a TAB member has a conflict of interest. There's no documentation on how to contact individual TAB members. It's unclear which are willing to receive an individual report. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f …
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Worse, the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board mailing list has a private archive stretching back to the creation of the board. Current and future board members can check that archive for reports against them. Retaliation is a concern. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/tab …
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The new Linux kernel Code of Conduct has no reporter guidelines. No discussion of how they protect reporter privacy (they don't, see above). No discussion of dealing with conflicts of interest. No guarantee about the amount of time to respond to a report. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f …
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I have no faith that the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board will respond to a Code of Conduct violation promptly or with a well-thought out response. Please push the board to release an anonymized transparency report on all past Linux kernel Code of Conduct violation cases
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You can contact the Linux Foundation via email: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/contact/ You can contact the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board members who signed off on the new Code of Conduct: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f …
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We need to push the Linux Foundation and the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board to be transparent about their progress as Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel community attempts to live up to their new Code of Conduct.
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TLDR: The new Linux kernel Code of Conduct was hastily pushed through by the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory board in response to concerns about sexism & verbal abuse being exposed. You shouldn't trust it. Push for anonymized transparency reports on Code of Conduct violations
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