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Thread: Linus Torvalds temporarily stepped down from the Linux kernel, and the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board pushed a new Code of Conduct. Can we trust them to change? I don't believe we can unless they publish transparency reports: https://otter.technology/blog/2018/09/20/linux-kernel-hastily-adopts-standard-code-of-conduct/ …
Recently, Linus Torvalds announced he was taking a temporary leave of absence to "take a break to get help on how to behave differently". Turns out it was in response to a reporter's questions about this article on the verbal abuse and sexism in Linux:https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/after-years-of-abusive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside …
The Linux Foundation and Linus was contacted for comments, which allowed them time to put a really great PR spin on the article. Linus announced he was stepping down temporarily, and handed control over to Greg Kroah-Hartman: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167 …
The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board pushed through a hasty commit to change their "Code of Conflict" over to the standard Contributor's Covenant: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f …
The Linux kernel community's change from the Code of Conflict to a standard Code of Conduct was only acked by 6 out of 10 members of the Linux Foundation Technical advisory board:https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/technical-advisory-board/ …
That's a lot fewer people that reviewed the first Code of Conflict, which had over 60 community members sign off on it. I wonder whether the change was discussed at all with the community outside the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/CodeOfConflict?id=ddbd2b7ad99a418c60397901a0f3c997d030c65e …
The new Code of Conduct explicitly says discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex or gender is not allowed. One Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board member who did not sign off on the patch is Ted Tso, who is a rape apologist:http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Rape_apology_on_LCA_mailing_list …
Would you make a report about a sexist comment to a Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board board that includes a member who has dismissed rape because "the perpetrator did not threaten to harm or kill the victim" or people were "plied with alcohol"? Nope, I didn't think so.
Say someone wants to make a Linux kernel Code of Conduct report, and they believe a TAB member has a conflict of interest. There's no documentation on how to contact individual TAB members. It's unclear which are willing to receive an individual report. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f …
Worse, the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board mailing list has a private archive stretching back to the creation of the board. Current and future board members can check that archive for reports against them. Retaliation is a concern. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/tab …
The new Linux kernel Code of Conduct has no reporter guidelines. No discussion of how they protect reporter privacy (they don't, see above). No discussion of dealing with conflicts of interest. No guarantee about the amount of time to respond to a report. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f …
I have no faith that the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board will respond to a Code of Conduct violation promptly or with a well-thought out response. Please push the board to release an anonymized transparency report on all past Linux kernel Code of Conduct violation cases
You can contact the Linux Foundation via email: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/contact/ You can contact the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board members who signed off on the new Code of Conduct: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f …
We need to push the Linux Foundation and the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board to be transparent about their progress as Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel community attempts to live up to their new Code of Conduct.
TLDR: The new Linux kernel Code of Conduct was hastily pushed through by the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory board in response to concerns about sexism & verbal abuse being exposed. You shouldn't trust it. Push for anonymized transparency reports on Code of Conduct violations
excellent write up, saves me from all the hard work editing my own draft (stuck since months) to something publishable thanks for creating this
Have they been working on the new Code of Conduct for months or were you just fed up with the old Code of Conflict?
just to recap what we've done, and what's still being worked on for the fd.o/x.org CoC - there's lots of things that still need improving and contrast that with the across-the-board fail of the TAB. matching laundry list with yours, by&large
working title: "why I don't report incidents to the TAB; neither should you" for the stirr-up, but not really with the expectation that anything would change anytime soon really
I think your blog post would still be valuable if you have any personal stories you want to tell about the enforcement you haven't seen, or the conversations you've had where people don't understand Code of Conduct enforcement. You can always build on mine.
the points I wanted to cross where all about accountability to the entire community, representation, confidentiality and record keeping rules, handling conflict of interests. all these implementation details that do matter, but tend to be a bit dry.
atm I'm leaning towards "let's just quietly work all these items down in fd.o/x.org" too much going on already
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