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Is kicking out people who want to focus on pushing political views instead of actually working on said code bad?

by 71bw 4y ago

lonjil 4y ago
He 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 ago
He 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 ago
They 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 ago
This 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.

Is kicking out people who want to focus on pushing political views instead of actually working on said code bad?

by 71bw 4y ago

Is kicking out people who want to focus on pushing political views instead of actually working on said code bad?

He 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 ago

He 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 ago

They 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 ago

This 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.