Re:GitHub's Code of Conduct
by JoshTriplett on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @05:26PM
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You're making the assumption that if everyone just stopped caring about anything but code, problems would just evaporate. If there weren't a problem to begin with, sure, that might work. When there are pre-existing problems, shutting down discussion of them makes them worse.
Random example, if you want one likely to apply to an issue tracker: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... Reporting a bug about fixing such an assumption will almost certainly involve some discussion about identity. And if you tell people to shut up because their concerns aren't technical, the bug won't get fixed, and the next bug like it won't even get reported because you've made it clear that you don't care.
Another example: submitting a patch to change "master/slave" terminology into "primary/replica".
Another example: submitting a patch to avoid assuming male pronouns in documentation, in an effort to not make the default assumption that the reader is male.
> So is Linus' behavior hateful or not
When he's creatively explaining how a piece of code is broken, there's nothing wrong with that. When he's telling people that they should have been "retroactively aborted", yes, that's hateful. As mentioned, I've seen a lot less of that lately.
> Which one were those numbers pulled from?
Life isn't Wikipedia; direct primary research is perfectly acceptable.
Random example, if you want one likely to apply to an issue tracker: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... Reporting a bug about fixing such an assumption will almost certainly involve some discussion about identity. And if you tell people to shut up because their concerns aren't technical, the bug won't get fixed, and the next bug like it won't even get reported because you've made it clear that you don't care.
Another example: submitting a patch to change "master/slave" terminology into "primary/replica".
Another example: submitting a patch to avoid assuming male pronouns in documentation, in an effort to not make the default assumption that the reader is male.
> So is Linus' behavior hateful or not
When he's creatively explaining how a piece of code is broken, there's nothing wrong with that. When he's telling people that they should have been "retroactively aborted", yes, that's hateful. As mentioned, I've seen a lot less of that lately.
> Which one were those numbers pulled from?
Life isn't Wikipedia; direct primary research is perfectly acceptable.