With respect, Ben explained his personal reasoning for his actions. He didn't apologize or even acknowledge the hostile way he decided to behave publicly and privately. Ben's contributions, which are numerous and appreciated, also don't excuse toxic behavior in an open source project. The people involved took issue with that behavior, which remains unaddressed.
Ben is not a sexist, we are all perturbed by people vilifying him for sexism or, even worse, those holding him up as an anti-feminist hero, Trevor wrote a good piece about that https://gist.github.com/trevnorris/7729322 and many others commented and clarified that it was the behavior they found unacceptable. This is not about, and has never been about, rejecting a single contribution. -Mikeal On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:58AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, // ravi <[email protected]> wrote: > are you really saying that someone, who could put together full, > grammatically correct, well constructed paragraphs of English here on the > list and in that particular GitHub message, found a gender-neutrality change > to be trivial *because* he found the English involved (the words “he” and > “they”) foreign and ambiguous/confusing? > > Ben posted exactly why he did what he did: > https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568172 > > Matt. > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
