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Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama
- m463 2y agothe offending message seems to say: > Michal, if you think crashing processes is an acceptable alternative to error handling _you have no business writing kernel code_. > You have been stridently arguing for one bad idea after another, and it's an insult to those of us who do give a shit about writing reliable software. > You're arguing against basic precepts of kernel programming. > Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.
- dmitrygr 2y agoYou are big meanie, so we won’t take your FREE LABOUR THAT BENEFITS US all? What matter of mental illness is this? We’ll punish you voluntarily giving us free labour by not taking it? This is from the same series as “I’ll piss off the lottery people by not accepting my winnings”? I genuinely hope he takes the hint and never contributes again. If this is the thanks you get for thousands of hours of free work, act accordingly.
- kadoban 2y agoWhat would you propose as punishments for CoC violations like these?
- dmitrygr 2y agoA nursery rhyme. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”
- kadoban 2y agoToxic people do hurt communities though, especially volunteer communities. If you let people be their worst selves, you'll lose a bunch of people who don't want to deal with that. I wouldn't think that'd be a hard sell here, you've seen the HN guidelines, right? Those and the moderation in practice are a lot of why anyone is here.
- dmitrygr 2y agoDid you read the discussion on the mailing list in question? I advise reading it so you may properly form your own opinion instead of assuming based on headline
- kadoban 2y agoYes, I did.
- soupbowl 2y agoI prefer people stay civil but CoC is not a smoking gun. CoC easily turns into another form of toxic. I've seen it happen on a few projects, NixOs is a great example of CoC Stasi going crazy.
- kadoban 2y agoDoesn't appear to be what's happening here though, or in Linux in general.
- smittywerben 2y agoLinux seems to have f bomb drama every few years. I disagree about the CoC thing though any place that treats "our Community Guidelines" like it's the Constitution are weird. Not everyone likes to report. After X revisions and N years it excludes the people who didn't want to (or couldn't) report.
- throawayonthe 2y ago[dead]
- mindslight 2y agoFive Rosaries and seventeen TPS reports filed in triplicate.