On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 07:26:06AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21 2018, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 08:20:11AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > >> I call on you, Greg: > >> - to abandon this divisive attempt to impose a "Code of Conduct" > >> - to revert 8a104f8b5867c68 > >> - to return to your core competence of building a great team around > >> a great kernel > >> > >> #Isupportreversion > >> > >> I call on the community to consider what *does* need to be said, about > >> conduct, to people outside the community and who have recently joined. > >> What is the document that you would have liked to have read as you were > >> starting out? It is all too long ago for me to remember clearly, and so > >> much has changed. > > > > The document I would have liked to have read when starting out is > > currently checked into the source tree in > > Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst . > > I'm curious - what would you have gained by reading that document?
I would have then had rather less of a pervasive feeling of "if I make even a single mistake I get made an example of in ways that will feed people's quotes files for years to come". See https://hbr.org/2017/08/high-performing-teams-need-psychological-safety-heres-how-to-create-it for more on the benefits of that.
