Open letter to the NixOS foundation

>>denysv+(OP)
On the one hand I am not a fan of commenting on documents without having read them in their entirety, but on the other hand it would probably take weeks to dive into the details of the discussion threads about the various PRs and initiatives linked here.

What really caught my eye was this discussion thread on the RFC98 PR (https://github.com/nixos/rfcs/pull/98#discussion_r683938993) where one of the signatories of this open letter kept arguing for why fascism should be included, in the sense of:

  Do not allow the Nix community to be a place for spreading ideas rooted in fascism or bigotry

It seems to me, based on my reading of that discussion so far, that at least some of the signatories of this letter have a very specific agenda and are just as unwilling to compromise as the accused on the other side. Instead of being slightly more pragmatic and accepting less controversial language they then decide to die on that hill and divide people over an unnecessary question.

To me this whole thing exemplifies the worst aspects of the "code of conduct" initiatives you see in various projects. Ostensibly a reasonable idea that could really improve the participation experience especially for people from, as they call it, marginalized communities, but with the end result being that it back fires and makes people come across as radical ideologists.

>>YuukiR+Fs1
> makes people come across as radical ideologists

Indeed I think the majority of people who seem to try to push hard for CoC inclusion end up just using the maintainer's either inaction or refusal to do so as some kind of grounds to go to war against them. I've been downvoted to oblivion across several sites for saying this but I think it really warrants saying it without sugarcoating... this is exactly what a terrorist does.

>>ranger+9y2
Not gonna lie, I did not expect where this was going. Lol.

I think you should read a bit about actual terrorism. You are getting downvoted for inflationary using a term like 'terrorist' to frame someone you don't agree with.

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