Sharp: Closing a door
Sharp: Closing a door
Sarah Sharp has made
official her departure from the kernel development community. "I
didn’t take the decision to step down lightly. I felt guilty, for a long
time, for stepping down. However, I finally realized that I could no longer
contribute to a community where I was technically respected, but I could
not ask for personal respect. I could not work with people who helpfully
encouraged newcomers to send patches, and then argued that maintainers
should be allowed to spew whatever vile words they needed to in order to
maintain radical emotional honesty. I did not want to work professionally
with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic
jokes. I feel powerless in a community that had a 'Code of Conflict'
without a specific list of behaviors to avoid and a community with no teeth
to enforce it.
"