Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:43:20 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [ATTEND] How to act on LKML |
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:40:43AM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > Go look at Dreamwidth, the open source Livejournal fork. It has a good > code of conduct, so developers are civil to each other. They encourage > all patch submissions, and take the time to work with people who don't > understand their community rules. > > The result: 75% of their developers are women. If you give a flying > fuck about diversity, and want to attract women to your open source > project, your developers need to be civil, and not verbally abuse each > other.
But this has nothing to do with a project's success or quality, gender is not related. Are you suggesting that with more women the Linux kernel would be a more successful project ? If so I think you're a bit biased. In my opinion, only its good people make it a good project, whatever their gender.
Willy
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