Sharp: Closing a door

Sarah Sharp has madeofficial her departure from the kernel development community. "Ididn't take the decision to step down lightly. I felt guilty, for a longtime, for stepping down. However, I finally realized that I could no longercontribute to a community where I was technically respected, but I couldnot ask for personal respect. I could not work with people who helpfullyencouraged newcomers to send patches, and then argued that maintainersshould be allowed to spew whatever vile words they needed to in order tomaintain radical emotional honesty. I did not want to work professionallywith people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobicjokes. 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 teethto enforce it."