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On Fri, 05 Oct 2018, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 09:12:40AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> BTW, should we start sending out patches to remedy parts in the CoC that
>> are not appropriate/suited/wanted for the Linux kernel project?
>> So far I have seen many suggestions to improve it, but no formal patches
>> for Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst.
>> I'm afraid it is already causing a chilling effect...
>
> There have also been very few patches to the top-level COPYING, modulo
> some recent SPDX-inspired reordering. The right place for patches is
> upstream; the right place for clarifications on application would be in
> a separate Documentation/process/code-of-conduct-process.rst or similar.

Agreed, as noted before.

Also, given the way the new CoC was introduced, I think the discussion
on modifying code-of-conduct.rst locally is mostly futile until we hear
some direction straight from the horse's mouth. However, nothing
prevents anyone from proposing improvements directly to Contributor
Covenant upstream.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center