Em Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:21:38 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 04:34:07PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > There is the saying that "bad facts make bad law", and the specifics > > of this most recent controversy are especially challenging. I would > > urge caution before trying to create a complex set of policies and > > mechanim when we've only had one such corner case in over 35 years. > > Well. we may have dodged a few bullets before now. Just in filesystems, > I can think of Hans Reiser, Jeff Merkey, Boaz Harrosh, Daniel Phillips > (no, i'm not saying any of the others did anything as heinous as Hans, > but they were all pretty disastrous in their own ways). There are other cases as well: there was a media driver maintainer that did pretty bad things, including physical threats against other maintainers. I even got a report that he did threat to life another maintainer who complained he would be violating GPL copyrights. > I don't think we can necessarily generalise from these examples to, > say, Lustre. That has its own unique challenges, and I don't think that > making them do more paperwork will be helpful. Agreed. I don't think those few examples have much in common: each had different types of issues. So, I don't think any text would be enough to cover such cases, as they're punctual. Probably the only thing that could be more effective would be to have an e-signed CLA for the ones which become maintainers. Thanks, Mauro
