| The Code of Conduct at Contributor Covenant is specifically designed to force politics on other people inside and outside FOSS projects. Its creator describes the ideology here: https://medium.com/rx3-magazine/why-hackers-must-welcome-soc... ESR represented meritocracy instead in the post below. One was written to counter the other but don't remember what order. I link to an example Code of Merit as well to show how simple it is: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918 https://medium.com/@jmaynard/a-contribution-policy-for-open-... The manipulative tactics they use are often called SJW by critics. The combo of pushers aiming for political dominance and sophist tactics to achieve goals means anything like that CoC should be rejected totally and quickly. It will just be leverage later as it's intended to be. A good write-up on how that works where they act like their claims aren't controversial but argue with or censor each other all the time on it is below. So is an attack on Ruby community by non-contributors pushing the CoC & politics with Coraline herself dropping smears in support. Starts nice enough but they show true colors as resistance continues. ;) http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-word... https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 Note to all: This is a draft of a reference reply on this issue since it comes up a lot. Many people new to CoC's don't know they're openly meant to be political. If any have a clearer set of links, I'm interested in them. If you like this set as an intro, tell me so I can turn it into a Pastebin or something. Edit to add: Anyone wanting to discuss this further just email me or something so this topic doesn't get polluted with politics. |
That's insane. Why would anyone want to force politics into a technical discussion. I can't think of a single place where the Red or Blue on my ballot would influence my software development prowess. Same for nationality or opinions on social matters.
Some of the things in this article make no sense.
> There are those who firmly believe that the politics of social justice have no place in the world of open source. They think that the injection of political ideologies is a corruption of the apolitical nature of free software.
> From the onset open source has been inherently a political movement, a reaction against the socially damaging, anti-competitive motivations of governments and corporations. It began as a campaign for social liberty and digital freedom, a celebration of the success of communal efforts in the face of rampant capitalism. What is this if not a political movement?
> All political movements start with an ideology. But when they are set in motion this ideology may become obscured. It is crucial that we constantly scrutinize the manifestation of our principles to ensure that the lofty goals of our ambitions are in line with our actions.
This is going to be a really really good read. Thanks for the share nick!