Michael Larabel over at Phoronix brings us news of a stealth Social Justice coup over at FreeDesktop.org:
X.Org, GStreamer, Wayland, LibreOffice, Mesa, VA-API, Harfbuzz, and SPICE are among the many projects hosted by FreeDesktop.org that now appear to be on a contributor covenant / code of conduct.
The Contributor Covenant for those unfamiliar with it is trying to promote a code of conduct for open-source projects that is trying to promote diversity and equality of contributors to libre software projects. From the covenant's website, "Part of this problem [of "free, libre, and open source projects suffer from a startling lack of diversity, with dramatically low representation by women, people of color, and other marginalized populations"] lies with the very structure of some projects: the use of insensitive language, thoughtless use of pronouns, assumptions of gender, and even sexualized or culturally insensitive names."
The covenant states in part that those contributing should use welcoming and inclusive language, be respectful to others, showing empathy towards others, avoid insulting comments, and avoid inappropriate conduct. For the most part, it's basically common sense.
Now it seems this Contributor Covenant is being forced onto all FreeDesktop.org-hosted projects.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:17AM (3 children)
Thankfully they have made themselves irrelevant by sabotaging Xorg and focusing on the clusterfsck that is wayland.
Make X11 great again... fork X Windows.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:02PM (2 children)
Upon hearing this, suddenly I've become a lot more skeptical of Wayland.
I'm... still pretty sure it's the right way forward???
I've got one of those statuses I can pull to be a victim if I need to submit a patch, but CoCs mean they're more interested in my status than my code.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:23PM (1 child)
Look at it from the positive perspective. If you dislike Wayland, welcome their HR-department infection of equal outcome diversity .. ;-)
Clusterfuck-code-R'-us! :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @05:51PM
But I don't dislike Wayland. I know I'm in the minority here, but I rather like it.
All I'm waiting on to switch over to Wayland from X11 is for NVidia's drivers to play nice with it.
Works pretty well with nouveau except for some weirdness with Audacious. Well, that, and I admit there are decades of polish in existing X11-based stacks I'm walking away from.