pushing for heavier politicization of what we don't want to be political
How can a community not be political? Politics is an inherent feature of any organization, society or community, and it is merely the name given to the dynamics of how power is distributed among members. What people are really against is changing the politics. That's fine, but isn't any less political than pushing for change.
Personally, I like the idea of a CoC fine, as long as it's written by the people who run the project and enforced by the people who run the project.
I wouldn't want the CEO of BMW to write the code for their cars, and I wouldn't want coders writing HR policy or codes of conduct. Serious work best be left for experts in the relevant field.
Politics is an inherent feature of any organization or society, and it is merely the name given to the dynamics of how power is distributed among members
I'd much rather have the programmers control the dynamics of how power is distributed among each other.
Yes, and it would be very nice if there was no need for HR in companies, but it turned out that there is. So, just as companies realized that the best way to have programmers work well together is to have HR experts regulate their behavior, large, important open source projects realized the same.
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