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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Absolutely nothing. The fact that they had to bring up a totally irrelevant 3 year old issue during an event that is supposed to be celebrated tells you a lot. They have been blatantly brigading various communities just for attention, and probably to get the dev cancelled or something. Even this post, the privacy community does not need this whole chain of replies. And yet, they overshadow every legit discussion with this bullshit unprompted.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it's not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

he hasn't gone out of his way. he just thinks its irrelevant to make a report about it. and he is correct. thats not what github report is for.

these commenters are hitting this guy for something so small it's not worth getting angry over.

they're calling this guy a transphobe for saying "please take this somewhere else. this is not the appropriate place" nothing about that is malicious or transphobic. at all.

[–] iltg 5 points 4 months ago

"us/them" mentality doesn't help much. this is surely a great fuss for a 3 year old pr but you're misrepresenting the situation:

  • serenityOS (and consequently ladybird) has rather strict rules about wording documentation: they enforce language style and even date formats
  • that wasn't a report, but a PR: rather than pressing ~50 keys on your keyboard and then a "lock" button he could have just pressed the "merge" button and integrated those ~10 total characters changes
  • github issues are routinely used to fix wording: documentation often lives on git and it's useful to have it version controlled, even plain documents without attached source are kept on git so that their edit history is accessible and manageable

folks are making a big fuss but Andreas really set himself up: just say sorry and change 4 words, such a weird horse to die on

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