Sam was absolutely doing her best, and if her initial decisions with regard to me were perhaps arguably a trifle draconian, I'd note that "a moderator getting out over their skis due to an excess of righteous anger" is absolutely somebody I've been significantly more times than Sam has.
The only person standing behind said committer's racism was lizmat, who forced me to reverse the ban I laid for the original fucked up cpan upload and has been attacking me for thinking he was a problem since.
However, lizmat has now resigned from TPF; I hope she isn't as much of a problem to raku conduct enforcement going forwards as she's been elsewhere, but I have faith in the raku team's ability to manage that issue and don't intend to interfere with their doing so.
And she has terminated her relationship with the committer.
The toxic element to be "purged" from the Perl community, has now returned and will make the Perl community more to his image . Which will only get more people to leave the Perl community. But that is no different from the past 15 years that I have had the pleasure of dealing with this toxic element.
I am, however, very glad that the Raku CAT has since corrected your mistake.
I am very well aware that I can be an asshole sometimes, but unlike you I don't defend outright anti-black racism because, to quote Patrick, "I call my black friends that" and "it's just a word".
Your repeated opposition to code of conduct enforcement is unfortunate but now you've resigned I hope we'll be able to move forwards on that matter without your personal dislike of me interfering.
(I know that part of this comment is referring to events that took place years ago; I don't have any firsthand knowledge about those events but want to correct the record about the present)
[0]: https://github.com/Raku/Raku-Steering-Council/blob/main/pape...
I appreciate that she's revised her opinion on this specific case and apologise for not making clearer that she's done so - I only wish she'd be more supportive of code of conduct enforcement in other cases.
He didn't push it to CPAN, his dotfiles repo is not on CPAN. Please do not spread misinformation.
Edit: The CPAN thing is different. It contains a directory whose name is "perl6-nigger", you can find it at http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/T/TY/TYIL/Perl6/App-Cpan6...
Riedel's complaint to the board points out that this isn't Spek's first racism rodeo. CPAN still offers downloads containing a 2017-era tarball from Spek with a folder named "perl6-n[word]". We downloaded the linked file and can verify that it's still available from CPAN, and it does in fact contain that folder.
Did I say "hardline"? No, that's your word. Of course there isn't a hardline. It's an ideal that we try to maintain. It's a stated goal that we can all read in black and white. We have lawyers and constitutional scholars to mediate disputes over this stated goal.
> it’s funny you turn to “trans”... “ni—-er get a job”
I don't know why this is funny. Or are you saying that you are offended I even brought it up?
I think the pre-internet nostalgia of a proper “informal mediation process” is about as genuine as believing the US has an actual hardline between church and state.
That said, it’s funny you turn to “trans” issues as some powder keg when the article is about whether a committer should be allowed to push something along the lines that says “ni—-er get a job” to CPAN. I can’t think most professional communities would have caused a stink about that on their mailing list