On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 07:15:45PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o 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@example.com"
> then decide how much someone appears to be a member of the community
> before deciding how and whether their thoughts are relevant.
> 
> There are a lot of strong feelings on this issue, and allowing people
> who aren't members of the Linux kernel development community, to
> escalate the rhetoric --- either in the pro- or anti- CoC direction,
> and whether on mailing lists, github comment threads, Twitter, or
> Reddit --- is not helpful.

I completely agree with this; very eagerly seconded.

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Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas