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As per his message, it wasn't just the code of conduct. It was also their partnership with Outreachy which he sees as a sexist and racist organization. He doesn

As per his message, it wasn't just the code of conduct. It was also their partnership with Outreachy which he sees as a sexist and racist organization. He doesn't want to contribute code to a project he sees furthering those goals, sounds fair enough. As far as objecting to CoCs, a lot of people don't like them because they've historically opened the door to non-developers coming in an usurping actual contributing developers and shifting the project focus from something technical to something political.

mcintyre1994 9y ago
That would indeed be objectionable! For someone unfamiliar with that history, can you give a few projects I should read up on to find out more?
- malvosenior 9y ago
  Yes, you should read up on the Contributor Covenant. The creator of which is notorious for aggressively pushing to get the CoC included into projects and then harassing developers. Here's one of the more famous examples: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 Also see how the creator tried to force this CoC into Ruby: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004
  - rhapsodic 9y ago
    OMG, this is priceless: > Our community prides itself on niceness. What a code > of conduct does is define what we mean by nice.
  - aivarsk 9y ago
    They should try to force this CoC into Linux kernel :-D
    - elcapitan 9y ago
      Oh god I want to read Linus' reply :D Better than a Netflix subscription for a year or so.
  - tomjakubowski 9y ago
    How about an actual example of "usurping actual contributing developers and shifting the project focus from something technical to something political."? Just trying doesn't count.
  - AdamM12 9y ago
    Didn't these people also get upset over some projects documentation using "he"? I remember seeing a massive thread about the Issue requesting gender neutral language and the maintainer spiked it. On another note it sure seems like CoC are often weaponized by people who engage in wrong think. edit: found link -> https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015

mcintyre1994 9y ago

That would indeed be objectionable! For someone unfamiliar with that history, can you give a few projects I should read up on to find out more?

malvosenior 9y ago
Yes, you should read up on the Contributor Covenant. The creator of which is notorious for aggressively pushing to get the CoC included into projects and then harassing developers. Here's one of the more famous examples: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 Also see how the creator tried to force this CoC into Ruby: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004
- rhapsodic 9y ago
  OMG, this is priceless: > Our community prides itself on niceness. What a code > of conduct does is define what we mean by nice.
- aivarsk 9y ago
  They should try to force this CoC into Linux kernel :-D
  - elcapitan 9y ago
    Oh god I want to read Linus' reply :D Better than a Netflix subscription for a year or so.
- tomjakubowski 9y ago
  How about an actual example of "usurping actual contributing developers and shifting the project focus from something technical to something political."? Just trying doesn't count.
- AdamM12 9y ago
  Didn't these people also get upset over some projects documentation using "he"? I remember seeing a massive thread about the Issue requesting gender neutral language and the maintainer spiked it. On another note it sure seems like CoC are often weaponized by people who engage in wrong think. edit: found link -> https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015