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
