creating an inclusive environment
2025-02-17 05:20:28.775601+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
Karol Herbst's email removing himself from the Linux kernel maintainers:
The moment I made up my mind about this was reading the following words written by a maintainer within the kernel community:
"we are the thin blue line"
This isn't okay. This isn't creating an inclusive environment. This isn't okay with the current political situation especially in the US. A maintainer speaking those words can't be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn. Learn what those words mean for a lot of marginalized people. Learn about what horrors it evokes in their minds.
A response to Theodore Ts'o's comment.