On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:12:19 -0800 Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > Is this wrong interpretation? Should I conclude that I made a mistake > by reading the CoC and trying to understand what it *actually* says? > After this discussion, I can say that I understand it less than before. Have you read Documentation/process/code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst? As has been pointed out, it contains a clear answer to how things should be interpreted here. Thanks, jon