"This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of
not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been
both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made
it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me.
I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry."

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

@k whoa

odds that any of the “Linus is mean because meanness makes software better, so we’re gonna be mean too” crowd will similarly introspect are probably nil unfortunately

@elchapo if he realizes that "tooling" includes the code of conduct and formalized ways to manage a community, those people will at least be pushed out of kernel dev, which is a start

@k @elchapo astonishingly enough, they're adopting a new CoC, based on the contributor covenant.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f