[malvosenior]

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]

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]

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

Also see how the creator tried to force this CoC into Ruby:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004

[AdamM12]

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

[aivarsk]

They should try to force this CoC into Linux kernel :-D

[elcapitan]

Oh god I want to read Linus' reply :D Better than a Netflix subscription for a year or so.

[tomjakubowski]

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.

[rhapsodic]

OMG, this is priceless:

  > Our community prides itself on niceness. What a code 
  > of conduct does is define what we mean by nice.