On Mo, Mai 29 2023 at 18:24:02 +0000, Wouter Onebekend <wouter.onebekend@proton.me> wrote:
Did that sort of thing actually happen back in Novell times? I only got involved at an unspecified point in time in the last decade, and other than requesting the odd package inclusion on the factory list I did not really post on - or read - any mailing lists (or hang out on IRC a lot for that matter). I only stumbled upon this discussion by accident and it reminded me of various goings on (codices of conduct, people getting cancelled for views that collided with the radical lefts') I saw in other open source projects. Things have gotten very hostile. Everywhere. And the hostilities always break out across the same dividing lines of "let's have a rainbow flag (or more recently Ukraine flag)"/"let's introduce a code of conduct"/"let's rename our 'master' branch to 'main"/"let's police our code for non-inclusive words" and "let's leave things as they are". Most places the people in the "let's leave things as they are" get forced to shut up on pain of getting thrown out or leave of their own accord. This is a fairly recent development. I did not keep statistics but this encroaching of politics on every open source project happened over the last 5 years, I'd say.
Did that happen with the new code of conduct in the project? To me it doesn't seem like there has been all that major of a change besides the change of policies. There have been plenty of cases of people getting banned from mailing lists and forums for years as far as I could tell from migrating them over into the new software. So I'm curious about the perspective as it pertains to the openSUSE project specifically. LCP [Jake] https://lcp.world/