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No, the person who owns the GitHub organization kicked out all other developers with zero notice and started talking about how he's purging the "leftoids" from
by lonjil 4y ago
No, the person who owns the GitHub organization kicked out all other developers with zero notice and started talking about how he's purging the "leftoids" from the project and that all other contributors were "promoting radicalist leftist queer ideology".
- bullwalk 4y agoAh okay that all seems rather silly. Sounds like one dev decided to play a prank on the other devs.
- IntelMiner 4y agoThat's a pretty charitable interpretation of events so far
- bullwalk 4y agoNo idea really, I'd never heard of the project until it popped up here. But it looks like everyone in the commit comments is having fun posting photographs of cats to each other, which I suppose must be some "in joke" of the project. So I guess it's a funny prank they are doing, like an April Fool, but in mid-October.
- oneplane 4y agoYou do realise that this is about a piece of software with auto-updating and remote server control capabilities? A community project where suddenly all power is transferred to one individual who can now push malware to everyone who has the software installed is hardly a joke.
- IntelMiner 4y agoYou should scroll back. And read the other linked comments in this thread
- dawnbreez 4y agoI guess you don't have the context of what the commit message means. "Leftoids" is a derogatory slang term for people who aren't politically right-wing, and deleting the CoC like this while kicking everyone else out and declaring that the project has been "reclaimed from the leftoids" reads less like a prank and more like someone wanted to kick political opponents off the project.
- 71bw 4y agoIs kicking out people who want to focus on pushing political views instead of actually working on said code bad?
- lonjil 4y agoHe kicked out 100% of people who actually contribute code, so I'm not sure what the heck you're talking about. To the contrary, the sole person left in the project is the one who was all political about it.
- Macha 4y agoHe kicked out the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th largest contributors while himself being the 14th largest. The first place contributor was the lead maintainer of MultiMC, the project which PolyMC is forked from, and has never been active in the PolyMC fork. The fourth place contributor is a MultiMC contributor from 2016-2018 who has never been active in this fork. The fifth place is the MultiMC founder who left in 2017 or so. So the people he kicked out are the people actively working on the code. Even just looking at the last year, he kicked out the top 9 contributors while personally being 10th
- immibis 4y agoThey weren't focused on pushing political views instead of actually working on code. The guy who kicked them out was focused on pushing political views instead of actually working on code. And as a bonus, the political view he's trying to push is alt-right edgelordism, which is a step on the modern pathway to actual nazism.
- creatonez 4y agoThis is the complete opposite of what happened. Kenny barely contributed to the project and mostly just wanted to push his anti-trans political views. The other contributors are the ones who actually wrote the bulk of the code. The PolyMC project now has almost no developer talent left, because Kenny kicked everyone who doesn't agree with him. All of the people who contributed significantly have now moved over to https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher, which is a project that isn't going to start making rash decisions based on extremist views.