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

["Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>]

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.
 
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