Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER TOPIC FOR KS] CoC and Linus position (perhaps undocumented/closed/limited/invite session)

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>]

Em Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:10:15 -0700
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> escreveu:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:55:52PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > After re-reading it, I'm pretty sure that, the way it is, publishing
> > e-mails violate this CoC.
> > 
> > The thing is that, when it uses the commas there:
> > 
> > 	"private information, such as a physical or electronic address," 
> > 
> > The commas actually defines what "private information" is. Even if
> > this would be changed by "foo information", what we have here is actually two
> > English sentences that were merged together:
> > 
> > First sentence:
> > 	"Private information, such as a physical or electronic address."
> > 
> > Second sentence:
> > 	"Publishing others’ private information without explicit permission"
> > 
> > See, replace it by foo at the original text:
> > 	"Publishing others’ *foo* information, such as a physical 
> > 	 or electronic address, without explicit permission"
> > 
> > You'll see that "*foo* information" becomes defined.  
> 
> So perhaps we can move on to discussing a patch to fix it?
> 
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst b/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst
> index ab7c24b5478c..ec99a17ab646 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst
> @@ -31,10 +31,13 @@ Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
>  * Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
>  * Public or private harassment
>  * Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic
> -  address, without explicit permission
> +  address[1], without explicit permission
>  * Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
>    professional setting
>  
> +[1] Note that e-mail addresses used on public mailing lists are not
> +considered to be private information and can (in fact should) be used
> +to give credit in Reported-by, Acked-by, Tested-by etc. tags.
>  
>  Our Responsibilities
>  ====================

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


Thanks,
Mauro