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posted by martyb on Wednesday June 01 2016, @02:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the unintended-consequences dept.

Devuan, the once devil-may-care total fork of Debian, once linked to virulent internet sexism and gamer-gate affiliated image forums by Debian Developer Russel Coker, has mulled the option of enacting a Code of Conduct when one of its female members was insulted:

> https://botbot.me/freenode/devuan/2016-05-25/?page=2
>jaromil today i was scrolling through http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_...
>golinux Well, I tried but couldn't find anybody. Then nextime popped up
>jaromil jeez. we need to take precautions. and also I get the point from Sarah Mei we need a code of conduct on-line and later for on-site http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2015/02/01/the-fos...
> its never too early for that
>
>golinux One can only control one's own actions. ;)
>
>jaromil ah the wise one
...
>Wizzup he is doxed?
>jaromil that's him. we have a dossier yes

Devuan has been criticized for taking a "who gives a damn" and "real admins do it all by hand themselves every install" attitude towards security hardening scripts, and despise in particular any mention of the "bastille" linux hardening script (originally funded by Mandrake Linux).

Interestingly when Devuan was forming, the people behind Devuan cited the very person they are considering making the code of conduct against:

> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20141027
>VUA: It will be a governing body that puts the benefits of the users first, not the mystification of a "doacracy" delivering all the power to the package maintainers.
>Originally, Debian was created as a universal operating system for the users. The Free Software movement itself is there to defend users' rights. Sgryphon explains it well in this thread. ( http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=3031 )
>We will likely reproduce the governing body of Debian to follow its original mandate, with the advantage of starting small and more focused, hopefully with less pressure from the interest of commercial developers.


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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday June 01 2016, @11:43PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Wednesday June 01 2016, @11:43PM (#353722) Journal

    Ok. I think VLM has a good deconstruction of the situation. I've sat through enough presentations by the female equivalent of MikeeUSA to know what it feels like.

    Here's what I really feel. I feel that we have a discussion here going on 105 comments as I write this, Devuan is considering implementing a “code of conduct” which may or may not be sexist and/or cissexist, and all of this happened because MikeeUSA had an outburst.

    MikeeUSA is a crass troll, but he's effective. Where he pops up so do codes of conduct, so does *FEEL GUILTY*. Soylent thankfully dodged that bullet (/me tips hat to our resident Apache attack copter and notes I need to renew my subscription). It is a quite astonishing pattern, no?

    One would think that it were almost as if, possibly, and perhaps my tinfoil is on a bit tight here, and maybe I'm still bitter about being intimidated by Grand Valley State University's rape culture to stay in the closet when I began gender transition, that possibly, maybe, it almost may be the case that MikeeUSA isn't who he claims to be…!

    Naah, that's probably just crazy talk.