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Genuinely interested: How are gender identity, race, ethnicity, etc. of any relevance in Open Source Projects? Is this a regular topic of discussion besides the
by Odenwaelder 7y ago
Genuinely interested: How are gender identity, race, ethnicity, etc. of any relevance in Open Source Projects? Is this a regular topic of discussion besides the code?
- twoquestions 7y agoIf you look at some other stories, specifically "Text Rendering Hates You" and "Text Editing Hates You Too", working with non-English languages in text is tough, and it gets harder the farther from English you're working with. Considering ethnicity is the only way to prioritize issues like that.
- Odenwaelder 7y agoI wasn't thinking of the end user experience, but more of the developer experience. I'm wondering why such a clause is even written in CoCs.
- will_pseudonym 7y agoIt seems likely to be related in some way to this trend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_Covenant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_Covenant
- ssully 7y agoThey are relevant due to the "people" aspects of projects, as in, the collaborative aspects of the project. I am guessing you are pulling that line from the code of conduct portion of this post. They specifically mention having a committee of several people from different backgrounds so that the can better assess potential breaches in the code of conduct. As for if this is a regular topic of discussion besides the code, that obviously varies wildly, but I believe it's being discussed more these days.