[$] Code, conflict, and conduct
A couple of surprising things happened in the kernel community on
September 16: Linus Torvalds announced
that he was taking a break from kernel development to focus on improving
his own behavior, and the longstanding "code of conflict" was replaced
with a code of conduct based on the Contributor
Covenant. Those two things did not quite come packaged as a set, but
they are clearly not unrelated. It is a
time of change for the kernel project; there will be challenges to overcome
but, in the end, less may change than many expect or fear.