1) Linus posted this message saying he wants to change is swearing habits:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
2) at around the same time, greg kroah-hartman added this code of conduct to the linux kernel documentation:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... onduct.rst
3) ...which is originally written by Coraline Ehmke and has been adopted & adapted by many FOSS projects:
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/ve ... nduct.html
i do not know if there's a causality between 1) and 2) in either direction.
i do not know to what extent political correctness and social justice warrioring are a topic with Linus & other kernel devs.
but the discussions are going wild, partly because they always do, partly because SJW etc., but also because this Coraline person surely knows how to kick up a shitstorm. I just spent a long afternoon browsing reddit and following links - it's appalling:
https://mobile.twitter.com/CoralineAda/ ... 9746643968
https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
and so much on the topic on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrac ... al/?t=week
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/controversial/?t=week