On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 01:55:04PM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote: > On 10/07/18 01:51, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Providing an explicit list of discrimination factors may give the false > > impression that discrimination based on other unlisted factors would be > > allowed. > > > > Avoid any ambiguity by removing the list, to ensure "a harassment-free > > experience for everyone", period. [...] > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst > > b/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst > > index ab7c24b5478c6b30..e472c9f86ff00b34 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst > > +++ b/Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst > > @@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ Our Pledge > > > > In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as > > contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project > > and > > -our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of > > age, body > > -size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and > > -expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, > > nationality, > > -personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. > > +our community a harassment-free experience for everyone. > > > > Our Standards > > ============= > > > > > The words removed by this patch are a political statement.
Choosing not to say those words is a political statement. See the original commit message for the code of conduct: "Explicit guidelines have demonstrated success in other projects and other areas of the kernel." And see the FAQ entry at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq for "The Contributor Covenant explicitly lists a set of protected classes; does this make it acceptable to discriminate or make others feel unwelcome based on other factors?" (I wrote that FAQ entry and submitted it upstream, where it was enthusiastically merged.)
