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

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 04:29:48PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:02:08 -0400
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> escreveu:
> 
> > > After the past 2-3 days I get the feeling there are maintainers
> > > unsure about how this affects them and I think assuaging those fears
> > > might be a good thing.
> > > 
> 
> > From my perspective, which is probably fairly widespread: we're already
> > pretty much policing the lists using a set of rules which match fairly
> > closely to the new CoC, so there should really be no huge impact.
> 
> After carefully reading it a couple of times, I think it has a huge
> impact.
> 
> The more immediate impact is with regards to this wording:
> 
> 	"Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
> 	...
> 	* Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic
> 	  address, without explicit permission"
> 
> When we publish a patch with a Signed-off-by, Reviewed-by, Acked-by,
> Requested-by, Suggested-by, etc, we are actually publishing an electronic
> address.

If they've posted public mails from that email address, that isn't
"private information" at that point. And in any case someone offering
such a tag would constitute permission.

(Publishing someone's private, otherwise-unpublished email address in an
Acked-by, on the other hand, *could* be problematic. Don't do that.)

Nonetheless, it probably couldn't hurt to have some notes on this
situation somewhere.