Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Call to Action Re: [PATCH 0/7] Code of Conduct: Fix some wording, and add an interpretation document

Dan Carpenter
2018-10-23T06:46:52Z

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 07:40:51AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 09:26:52AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> > Ten years back there was a patch rejected because "F*** you, what do
> > women know about programming?" I can't imagine it happening now, but I
> > was so shocked by it at the time also...
>
> URL? I would really, honestly, no kidding, like to know who had that
> been (and where had that been, while we are at it). I would expect
> a massive (and absolutely deserved) shitstorm if that was on any
> public kernel-related lists 10 years ago, but I'm not reading all
> of them, obviously...

It was a private email and I don't know who the maintainer was.

But I heard about it from the woman at a Linux conference and she was
a competent programmer and the bug was still there at the time.

regards,
dan carpenter