The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit

Posted Oct 26, 2018 8:13 UTC (Fri) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604)
In reply to: The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit by denis_z
Parent article: The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit

It's unfortunate that often the people that push the CoC display extremely toxic behavior themselves. I remember when Sage (as Sarah) Sharp left Linux kernel development, they (falsely) accused Linus Torvalds of threatening people with violence: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137390362508794&...

The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit

Posted Oct 26, 2018 8:20 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

You clearly are trying to mislead and deceive people. Here's the quote:

> Not *fucking* cool. Violence, whether it be physical intimidation,
> verbal threats or verbal abuse is not acceptable. Keep it professional
> on the mailing lists.

Where's the accusation here?

The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit

Posted Oct 26, 2018 9:26 UTC (Fri) by denis_z (guest, #54228) [Link]

This one?

From: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp () linux ! intel ! com>
...
> Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence.
> Ingo Molnar and Linus are advocating for verbal abuse.

The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit

Posted Oct 26, 2018 19:17 UTC (Fri) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

I'm guessing this is the violence he was advocating...

> > Have you guys *seen* Greg? The guy is a freakish giant. He *should*
> > scare you. He might squish you without ever even noticing.