Hi Greg, On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 12:05 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Providing an explicit list of discrimination factors may give the false > > impression that discrimination based on other unlisted factors would be > > allowed. > > > > Furthermore, this list is already overly long, polarizing, > > politically-laden, and reinstating the concept of human races. > > None of these is related to the goals of the Linux kernel project. > > > > Avoid any ambiguity or political undertone by removing the list, to > > ensure "a harassment-free experience for everyone", period. > > I understand the reason you and others are proposing this change, > however for now, let us stick with the text that we have. As Linus and > I said just over a month ago, let's sit with the text we have until > something comes up that requires a change to happen. > > Also, I recommend you work with the upstream developers of this text to > see if they agree with your changes here. If they do, and update their > version, I will be glad to revisit this text at that time. I did, cfr. https://github.com/ContributorCovenant/contributor_covenant/issues/610 The official response was: "I'm not going to make this change to the Contributor Covenant itself, since I believe that explicitly listing examples of protected classes is important. However, any adopting project is free to modify the document according to the license." Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
