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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:44PM (1 child)
they seem to have reworded the CoC since the story broke. It is better than it was. the original was completely infuriating. i'd like to know who the authors were for that version so they can be taken to a beach and harpooned on youtube. i don't have a problem with people saying that harassment will not be tolerated but you have to have a really fair way of implementing that. what is considered harassment/other needs to be really nailed down (and voted on by all contributors) and so does the investigation and remedy process. you can't just make some vague pronouncements about not being a mean white male(or whatever happens to be demonized at the time) and then allow some secretive (or slanderous) witch hunt to be the remedy process. Is this really that hard? also, the other way, as another poster mentioned ,is just remove the social part from the project. just code. no human bullshit. since people can't seem to defend themselves without some "righteousness patrol" being created. define the code quality guidelines and give contributors numbers(not sexist/raciast/transphobe numbers though).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:22PM
I agree with you, but i'd like to know what is a sexist/raciast/transphobe number?