On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 04:53:48PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote: > On 11/20/24 21:25, 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 tend to use formal style when I speak on behalf of the Code of Conduct > committee. I would label it as very formal bordering on pedantic. > Would you prefer less formal style in the CoC communication? Personally, it's always easier to take requests from a human, than a faceless process that I have no input into. I'll always rebell against the latter, but I'll always work to help out or make things right with people in the community.