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Did it? People actually involved in the Linux community seemed fine. It was just internet people shouting "the sky is falling!"

• carlmr 8y ago
  What I read about was Kernel contributors having some friction with the CoC. That got blown up by the press a bit, but it wasn't only the press.
  • brazzy 8y ago
    If anything, drama related the CoC was what caused Linus' hiatus (in a "straw the broke the camel's back" sense), not the other way round.
  • joshuamorton 8y ago
    That was just because the CoC was updated at the same time that Linus left. There would have been CoC controversy if Linus had never left.
    • navane 8y ago
      You might have hit the nail on the head here. The belgian king once resigned for a single day so the parliament could pass a law on abortion. Could Linus have pulled of a similiar stunt? https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/world/belgian-king-unable-to-sign-abortion-law-takes-day-off.html https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/world/belgian-king-unable...
      • joshuamorton 8y ago
        I find it unlikely. It came up on the lkml that Linus requested changes to the CoC, and Greg was just the person who ended up managing the changes. If you mean that Linus didn't want the flak for the changes, then that seems like weak leadership on his part, and since iiuc Greg is likely to take over kernel management when Linus ever retires, passing the controversial work to his eventual replacement is bad tactics as well, since it'll undermine Greg's authority in some people's eyes if he takes over.