Re: Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.

From: Joey Pabalinas
Date: Fri Sep 21 2018 - 20:05:28 EST


On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 07:31:05PM -0400, jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:17 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > People can decide who they want to respond to, but I'm going to gently
> > suggest that before people think about responding to a particular
> > e-mail, that they do a quick check using "git log --author=xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxx"
> > then decide how much someone appears to be a member of the community
> > before deciding how and whether their thoughts are relevant.
>
> How does this part apply to email addresses used to commit code?
>
> * Publishing othersâ private information, such as a physical or electronic
> address, without explicit permission
>
> It appears to me that this would conflict with the GPL since the GPL
> granted the right to distribute (or even print it in a book) Linux and
> Linux contains email addresses. This also seems contradictory with
> the Reply button I used to send this email.

I don't really think email addresses used in patches which are sent,
voluntarily, to a public mailing list are something you can sanely
consider "private information".

> How do you reconcile working on a public project while keeping email
> address secret?

This is a little more delicate, and I admit that I can't really
think of any real solutions for this part...

--
Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature