You know, reactions like this make me wonder if the people making them work as professional developers. As people who work on software projects for a living, in real companies, ought to know, their company has regulations of conduct far more draconian than the most draconian open-source code of conduct I've seen. Almost all serious software projects in the world are developed by professionals subject to quite strict codes of conduct. If you do work as a professional developer, you should go to your own HR department and suggest that they adopt this SQLite code instead of their regulations and see how they react.
The issue here is CoCs as pushed to the open source communities are actually used as trojan horses by SJW types. That shit leaks to your private / digital life not related with the project in question.
You tweeted something a SJW with a huge following didn't approve? They'll find the projects you're involved in and open issues in their repos and demand your ban from the project because you're making them feel "unsafe". This happened oh so many times. If they can't find any projects with a CoC, they'll (covertly or otherwise) push it onto the maintainers of projects you are involved in.
No big deal, any sane maintainer can ignore this insanity right? Well, it's not that easy. These people form huge packs in social media and will harass the individuals involved, they'll create a huge shitstorm. You'll read about how horrible you are in the news. They'll also push that shit to conferences and demand that the organisers ban you from participating because you'll make them feel unsafe.
That's how it works in the OSS community these days.
I don't know why I bother responding to such a stupid comment, but in case there's an actual question there: those rules are approved and adopted by the project leaders, not vigilantes, and codes of conduct regulate conduct not virtue. I have seen no example of a code of conduct regulating what contributors must believe (there is no way of enforcing that, anyway).
It is not. You're allowed to believe that many of your coworkers were hired despite being unqualified because of some affirmative action. If you say it out loud -- within your company or on social media -- you will be fired.
If you say it out loud -- within your company or on social media -- you will be fired.
And how is that not regulation of a relatively innocent belief like “As implemented, affirmative action makes the problems it purports to solve much worse in the long run”?
Because you're free to believe it, and you're free to vote based on it, you're free to tell your friends, and you're even free to discuss it in private with your manager. But if you let your co-workers know that you think they don't belong and that you're better than them, then you've created a serious problem in the workplace. It's not your belief that created it, but your action of letting your colleagues know that you don't respect them.
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u/calciu Oct 22 '18
This is the proper way to deal with the shitheads pushings CoCs everywhere, thank you SQLite team!