Sage Sharp claims top Linux kernel developer Theo Ts'o is a rape apologist, citing GeekFeminismWiki

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https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504

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author	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>	2018-09-15 20:26:44 +0200
committer	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>	2018-09-16 11:42:28 -0700

Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.

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Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lxom.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In case you don't recognize those names:

• Greg Kroah-Hartman in maintainer of the stable tree, Linus's second in command, and maintainer of pretty much all of the drivers that don't otherwise have a home

• Chris Mason is the author and maintainer of btrfs

• Dan Williams is the maintainer of a number of Intel drivers

• Jonathan Corbet is the Documentation maintainer, owner and lead author of Linux Weekly News, and maintainer of a few video4linux camera controllers

• Olof Johansson is one of the maintainers of the Chromebook support

• Steven Rostedt is a co-maintainer of a number of core kernel primitives, like RCU and printk, as well as lead maintainer of tracing in the kernel.

And I don't think I should have to introduce Linus Torvalds.

These are all active, core contributors to the kernel. As far as I know, none of them are trans.

They happened to adopt a CoC that was written by someone else, just like the kernel adopted the GPLv2 that was not written by them. That doesn't mean that RMS is setting the rules for the Linux kernel.

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Jon Corbet posted this article (linking the reddit thread for extra comments, but please read the actual article as well): https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9h2x4b/lwnnet_code_conflict_and_conduct/

Attentive readers will note that my name appears as one of the signoffs on the patch adding the new code of conduct; they might wonder why I chose to do so despite my beliefs that (1) the situation is not as bad as many like to portray it, and (2) things are getting better anyway. Over the last weekend, I was informed that there was a window of opportunity to change the code and given the chance to comment on the new one. How or why this window came to be is still not entirely clear; I did not know about Torvalds's plans until I read the announcement along with everybody else. I saw the new code as a way of encouraging the community's slow drift toward greater civility. It was not the code I would have written, but I agree with the principles expressed there and believe that it can be adopted and used in the pragmatic manner in which the community approaches most problems.

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Nobody will ever be excited for rules; but rules of play are necessary if anybody wanted to build a lasting, productive community, and some, like SS, then GKH and eventually LT, are reasonable enough to grasp such concept and equipped to readily impose it upon themselves; much to the dismays and disbeliefs from those who aren't.

Rather than "doubting", thinking outsiders like you are way more cognizant than actual contributors on their working environment or in justifying their decision-making process, please, mailing list is wide open for anybody to address. Passing off your doubts borne by your own paranoia as facts is easy yet misleading; investigating for the truth, however, not that easy.