Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

2023-08-28 Thread Adam Spiers
On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 05:40, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: The fundamental problem here is that all of the issues these CoC documents are supposed to address are entirely off-topic and inappropriate in a software development context. Sexism, racism, whatever-ism-of-the-day are all irrelevant

Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

2023-08-28 Thread Taylan Kammer
On 28.08.2023 06:40, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > Taylan Kammer wrote: >> I genuinely care about sexism.  The commonly recognized kind, that targets >> women. >>   > > The fundamental problem here is that all of the issues these CoC documents > are supposed to address are entirely off-topic and

Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

2023-08-28 Thread Parodper
O 27/08/23 ás 11:54, Taylan Kammer escribiu: I genuinely care about sexism. The commonly recognized kind, that targets women. For nearly 10 years now I've also been following very closely the conflict between feminists and the transgender movement, mostly siding with the feminists. The only

Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

2023-08-28 Thread Taylan Kammer
On 27.08.2023 23:02, indieterminacy wrote: > I was in that thread, you should get the motte out of your eye before you > repeatedly run through peoples patience here. > > Stop wallowing in your own self pity and move on with your life. If you're going to throw around insults and not contribute

Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

2023-08-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You are working from the point of view that the maintainers must under any circumstance accept your patch, that is not how things work. Maintainers are allowed to pick any thing they want, or not. This is irrespective if the patch is of a purley technical nature, or not. If you feel that this

Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

2023-08-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
This is off-topic, unkind and beyond unsuitable for this list. Please drop it, all of you.

Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

2023-08-28 Thread Taylan Kammer
Thank you, I pretty much agree with all you've said. The GNU KCG seems to side-step the whole "sex vs. gender identity" debacle by just saying "gender" which can be interpreted to mean either. (Whether that was intentional, I don't know.) It could be left the way it is if everyone's fine with

Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

2023-08-28 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Adam Spiers wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 05:40, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: The fundamental problem here is that all of the issues these CoC documents are supposed to address are entirely off-topic and inappropriate in a software development context. Sexism, racism, whatever-ism-of-the-day are