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, @10:27PM
If they actually gave a single shit about equality, their 'code of conduct' would use a policy where contributors were FORBIDDEN from revealing their gender or race over official channels. That way, all contributors would actually be equal and judged primarily on the quality of their code and technical arguments.
WTF?
Instead of establishing an expectation of equal treatment regardless of who you are, people must hide who they are so that the idiots who can't control themselves won't be triggered into misbehaving.
That's like saying if women don't want to be raped, they need to cover their bodies so men won't be incited to rape them.
Screw that shit. If you can't treat people decently, you are the one who needs to hide your identity.