On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 05:25:58AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 03:47:59PM -0800, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:55:03PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > Shuah, would you be willing to entertain the notion of modifying your... > > > > Kent, I'd like to gently remind you that Shuah is not speaking in her > > personal capacity, but as a representative of the Code of Conduct > > Committee[1], as she has noted in her signature. The Code of Conduct > > Committee is appointed by, and reports to, the TAB[2], which is an > > elected body composed of kernel developers and maintainers. > > FYI, without taking any stance on the issue under debate here, I find the > language used by Shuah on behalf of the Code of Conduct committee > extremely patronising and passive aggressive. This might be because I > do not have an American academic class background, but I would suggest > that the code of conduct committee should educate itself about > communicating without projecting this implicit cultural and class bias > so blatantly. I wasn't even thinking about the language issue, but I think that's a very good point. We have a very strong culture of personal responsibility and taking responsibility for our work here, and I think that's one of the main thing that enables us to function and work together even when we're constantly butting heads. Broadly speaking, what that means to me is: I will justify, explain and give the reasoning for my actions if asked, and if I can't because I made a mistake, then I will make it right or at least acknowledge my mistake. So, the very passive language from Shuah (i.e. "I'm not the one 'doing' this, I'm just implementing the policy that we all decided on, even though I totally wrote and advocated for that policy") does seem problematic to me as well.
