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FreeDesktop.org Adopts CoC for All Member Projects

posted by on Monday April 10 2017, @07:43AM   
from the i-can't-tell-who-is-toxic-anymore dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

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.

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• Re:They don't want equality, just POWER Re:They don't want equality, just POWER (Score: 4, Insightful) by eravnrekaree on Monday April 10 2017, @03:39PM (2 children)

  by eravnrekaree (555) on Monday April 10 2017, @03:39PM (#491675)

  This whole idea that there is this disdain for women in programmer communities is a myth. It is true that there are a lot of men in programming, but the SJWs thn assume it must be because women are excluded. There is really no such exclusion. the idea that programmers dont like a code contribution because it comes from a woman or lower value it is just insane, its insane craziness. Many SJWs believe that they are being systematically oppressed and anything and everything is oppression, its hypersensitivity. So they see things that are not there. The demographics of participation in programming, Its is due to the fact fewer women have chosen to be involved software development. If more women want to become interested, this is great. Programming should be meritocracy, gender has nothing to do with it.

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• Re:They don't want equality, just POWER Re:They don't want equality, just POWER (Score: 4, Insightful) by melikamp on Monday April 10 2017, @04:08PM (1 child)

  by melikamp (1886) on Monday April 10 2017, @04:08PM (#491699) Journal

  This whole idea that there is this disdain for women in programmer communities is a myth. It is true that there are a lot of men in programming, but the SJWs thn assume it must be because women are excluded.

  What is SJW? People who are vocal about social justice issues? Funny how you can see into the minds of people, and then generalize despite the fact that some notions of social justice (for example, islamic or christian social justice) are inherently biased against women. You are just bullshitting, aren't you? Using SJW as a vague pejorative and making shit up?

  There is really no such exclusion. the idea that programmers dont like a code contribution because it comes from a woman or lower value it is just insane, its insane craziness.

  No, it's just stats [arstechnica.com], mon, and if this one study is flawed, I am sure you can find others by googling.

  When a woman offered a pull request on an open source project where she was an outsider—in other words, where none of the project leads knew her—her contributions were far less likely to be accepted than ones from outsider men. Far from showing bias against men, this showed a bias against women.

  All things being equal, contributions from unknown women were accepted less often than contributions from unknown men.

  This is in light of women being (apparently) on average better at coding, and

  But when they looked at the "merge rate" of women's contributions, they were shocked to find that 78.6 percent of women's pull requests were actually accepted and merged into the code, while only 74.4 percent of men's pull requests were.

  which the study explained by noting that

  Perhaps what's most interesting about this study, however, is the way sexist bias seems to disappear when men know the women who are contributing to an open source project.

  So the gender bias manifesting as higher-rate code rejection is not an "insane craziness", it's supported by stats. Obviously there are ways to overcome it, and it looks like females have found those ways, but pretending the bias does not exist in the face of facts is what I would call craziness.

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  • Re:They don't want equality, just POWER (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:28PM (#491869)

    This is in light of women being (apparently) on average better at coding, and

    [citation needed]

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