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While I get that this discussion is taking place in the context of contentious CoC debates in other projects, what I don't understand is why this is a big deal
by davidmr 8y ago
While I get that this discussion is taking place in the context of contentious CoC debates in other projects, what I don't understand is why this is a big deal in the Linux case.
Yes, people have been complaining about Linus' occasionally unambiguously abusive behavior for a long time, this genuinely seems like Linus had a bad few days, was pulled aside by some subset of the maintainers, and came to the conclusion that he should make some changes to his behavior and to the community of the project he controls.
I didn't see any threats or endless contentious debate derailing the project, so I'm genuinely struggling to understand why people are upset about this. If his previous behavior was acceptable, surely his new behavior will be acceptable as well?
- beat 8y agoI don't think anyone is expecting his "new behavior" to be worse. I think he pretty clearly gets that the way he was behaving before was wrong, and that he needs some help and guidance in order to deal with that. And the new CoC is part of that... it's there to help him as well as others, and he understands that. Unfortunately, the very concept of codes of conduct sets off a lot of political anger, mostly among the very people who really, desperately need a code of conduct applied to them.