From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Edward Cree <ec429@cantab.net>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 23:07:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180920030749.GA29741@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOesGMjgo5zwKvsbi8txGQbvFHR2N7xKphzhTSGOrruN3+RC-Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 02:16:40AM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > But there are too many ways this can go wrong, maybe not now or next
> > week but in five or ten years, when maybe a different kind of person
> > is on the TAB, or maybe external pressure is brought to bear on TAB
> > members.
>
> One thing to keep in mind is that we all want what is best for Linux,
> to make the best possible kernel. None of this has changed that.
>
> I personally find it unlikely that relevant pressure could be applied
> on TAB members; I don't find it a prestigious role such that it is
> worth holding on to against my own values or best judgement.
Even *if* pressure could be applied to TAB members, it's important to
remember that the TAB as a body gets its influence and moral authority
from the people who have agreed to serve on it, and not the other way
around. People join the TAB because they want to serve. It's not
because being on the TAB grants some kind of mystical power, because
it doesn't. Ultimately, the "A" in TAB stands for Advisory.
The TAB does not get to control whether patches gets accepted into the
linux-media git tree. Mauro gets to decide that. The TAB does not
get to control whether or not Linus accepts pull requests from a
subsystem maintainer; that's up to Linus. The TAB doesn't run
vger.kernel.org. That's done by David Miller.
Look at what happened when a particular developer decided to do the
anti-social thing and become a copyright troll. It was not the TAB
which decided that no further code contributions should be accepted
from that particular person. It was the Netfilter team.
Linux Maintainers have always had the power to reject patches for any
reason. It isn't just for technical reasons, as the Netfilter team
demonstrated with the copyright troll. (Of course, the person whose
patch has been rejected can always appeal to Linus, by sending the
patch directly to Linus. None of this has changed; it always has been
this way.)
The TAB can make a recommendation, but the decision to act on that
recommendation resides with the Maintainers in general, and
ultimately, Linus.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-20 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-19 6:00 Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it Edward Cree
2018-09-19 14:18 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-09-19 23:35 ` Edward Cree
2018-09-20 1:16 ` Olof Johansson
2018-09-20 2:14 ` Edward Cree
2018-09-21 1:48 ` Rik van Riel
2018-09-21 2:16 ` unixing
2018-09-21 13:07 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2018-09-21 16:34 ` \0xDynamite
2018-09-21 23:15 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-21 23:20 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-09-21 23:31 ` jonsmirl
2018-09-21 23:59 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2018-09-24 18:59 ` \0xDynamite
2018-09-24 19:45 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2018-09-25 2:24 ` gratuitouslicensesarerevocable
2018-09-25 17:14 ` \0xDynamite
2018-09-26 0:41 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2018-09-26 19:34 ` \0xDynamite
2018-09-26 20:55 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-09-28 18:34 ` \0xDynamite
2018-09-28 15:56 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-28 19:38 ` jonsmirl
2018-09-29 12:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-09-29 12:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-09-22 0:05 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-09-22 0:24 ` jonsmirl
2018-09-24 17:43 ` Max Filippov
2018-09-24 18:07 ` jonsmirl
2018-09-23 18:44 ` \0xDynamite
2018-09-25 23:48 ` Michael Woods
2018-09-24 17:25 ` unconditionedwitness
2018-09-25 11:28 ` Pavel Machek
2018-09-25 12:36 ` Christoph Conrads
2018-09-25 13:13 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-09-25 13:41 ` Christoph Conrads
2018-09-25 17:38 ` \0xDynamite
2018-09-25 13:28 ` Pavel Machek
2018-09-26 10:24 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-09-25 15:14 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-25 22:30 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-09-26 11:17 ` Christoph Conrads
2018-09-20 3:07 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2018-09-20 4:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-09-20 9:27 ` unconditionedwitness
2018-09-20 22:57 ` Edward Cree
2018-09-23 14:50 ` Christoph Conrads
2018-09-23 18:41 ` \0xDynamite
2018-09-24 17:21 ` unconditionedwitness
[not found] ` <c61eb2d545150d46428f4bc25843cd58@redchan.it>
[not found] ` <201809241941.44460.dr.klepp@gmx.at>
[not found] ` <20180924204809.GK23968@linuxmafia.com>
2018-09-25 2:09 ` [DNG] Fwd: " gratuitouslicensesarerevocable
2018-09-20 9:29 ` unconditionedwitness
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-09-20 21:18 Christoph Conrads
2018-09-21 8:09 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-09-21 11:36 ` Christoph Conrads
2018-09-17 11:48 Lukas Wunner
2018-09-17 12:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-18 19:16 ` Pavel Machek
2018-09-19 10:30 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-18 20:16 ` Lukas Wunner
[not found] ` <61b4a3f9-ccd1-061c-1c1b-ec993b056c66@bosch-fellbach.de>
2018-09-20 10:57 ` Lukas Wunner
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