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. > > [1] https://www.kernel.org/code-of-conduct.html > [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/code-of-conduct-interpretation.html > > Speaking purely in a personal capacity, and not as a member of the TAB > (although I do serve as vice-chair of that body) I am extremely > grateful of the work of Shuah and her colleages (listed in [1]). I > believe that their work is important in terms of establishing guard > rails regarding the minimum standards of behavior in our community. > > If you look at the git history of the kernel sources, you will see > that a large number of your fellow maintainers assented to this > approach --- for example by providing their Acked-by in commit > 1279dbeed36f ("Code of Conduct Interpretation: Add document explaining > how the Code of Conduct is to be interpreted"). Authored by Shuah, so I do seem to be talking to the correct person. Regardless, we talked privately about opening some sort of public discussion, this is pursuant to that.