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The issue hinges on the meaning of "represent". Merely mentioning in the bio of a personal account that I work on a certain open source project is not the same
by rewqfdsa 11y ago
The issue hinges on the meaning of "represent". Merely mentioning in the bio of a personal account that I work on a certain open source project is not the same as asserting that this personal account represents the project. Reasonable people do not confuse these concepts.
SJWs willfully conflate these ideas, though, and that's because they're not working in good faith. In reality, they're trying to blacklist people whose political views they find abhorrent, and one weapon in their extensive arsenal is the unreasonable interpretation of reasonable-sounding policy.
- duncan_bayne 11y agoPersonally, I don't see any evidence that the charter was created in bad faith. It seems like an entirely reasonable set of guidelines that would be good to follow. As you say, it all hinges on 'representation'. That's why I asked for clarification on the charter GitHub project. Basically: how do the creators of the charter see this working, and how will they prevent it being used in ways you suggest, to suppress unpopular speech? There is so much anger on this topic it's remarkably hard to get a clear picture of what's going on.
- duncan_bayne 11y agoI've opened a PR to clarify this: https://github.com/CoralineAda/contributor_covenant/pull/74 https://github.com/CoralineAda/contributor_covenant/pull/74