On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 14:12 -0800, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: [...] > I pasted this already to another response and this was probably the > part that ignited me to send the patch set (was a few days ago, so > had to revisit to find the exact paragraph): I replied in to the other thread. > "Maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or > reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other > contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban > temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that > they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful." > > The whole patch set is neither a joke/troll nor something I would > necessarily want to be include myself. It does have the RFC tag. > > As a maintainer myself (and based on somewhat disturbed feedback from > other maintainers) I can only make the conclusion that nobody knows > what the responsibility part here means. > > I would interpret, if I read it like at lawyer at least, that even > for existing code you would need to do the changes postmorterm. That's wrong in the light of the interpretation document, yes. > Is this wrong interpretation? Should I conclude that I made a > mistake by reading the CoC and trying to understand what it > *actually* says? You can't read it in isolation, you need to read it along with the interpretation document. The latter was created precisely because there was a lot of push back on interpretation problems and ambiguities with the original CoC and it specifically covers this case (and a lot of others). James > After this discussion, I can say that I understand it less than > before. > > /Jarkko >
