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El Reg has an interesting read on an OSS developers survey:
Most of the negative behaviour is explained as "rudeness", which has been experienced witnessed by 45 per cent of participants and experienced by 16 per cent. GitHub's summary of the survey says really nasty stuff like "sexual advances, stalking, or doxxing are each encountered by less than five per cent of respondents and experienced by less than two per cent (but cumulatively witnessed by 14%, and experienced by three per cent)." Twenty five per cent of women respondents reported experiencing "language or content that makes them feel unwelcome", compared to 15 per cent of men.
This stuff has consequences: 21 per cent of those who see negative behaviour bail from projects they were working on.
Now I take an entirely different conclusion than El Reg on this. To me this says that two or three percent of respondents have valid reason to bitch about bad behavior but a further eighteen or nineteen percent above that simply are not capable of working with other people. Come on, who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway? Me, I've not once held a job where there were zero personality conflicts. In my less than humble opinion, part of being an adult is being able to deal professionally or at least civilly with other human beings who do not cater to your every sensitivity.
Maybe I'm just a relic of the past though. Maybe the future really is a bunch of snowflakes crying to $boss to get you fired if you say or do anything they dislike.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @12:46AM (1 child)
I'd like to see some transcripts of these conversations where the "mature adults" manage to not take things personally. Let's see if they are really that bad and compare to other examples where you claim people are immature whiners. Also we'll need some psych profiles so we can tell if the sample groups can even be correlated.
I have a suspicion that your groups become self-selected to have similar group members. Contributing to OSS projects often does not include much detail on the other contributors so it is hard to select people you'd enjoy working with. Given the tendency for coders to power trip on their own egos I can understand why this has become a problem. Oddly enough the jerks are the ones who never seem to have a problem.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 08 2017, @01:14AM
Your wish is my command: https://logs.sylnt.us/ [sylnt.us] Check the past week in #dev if you like, wherein FatPhil schooled me on web standards and even called me a Microsoft coder.
You do know that we are an OSS project [github.com], yes? We've just been exceedingly fortunate in our staffing. I'd chalk it up to wise management but we pretty much never turn help away, so it's the quality of volunteers entirely.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.