I think it's reasonable for large software projects to have Code of Conduct. When I'm working on something small with few collaborators, it's too much process.
"No Code of Conduct", to me, looks like what All Lives Matter is to Black Lives Matter, that is, a deflection from the actual problem.
I somewhat agree with the general 'Don't be a jerk' principle. It has its place. But it doesn't scale for large projects.
This problem is, it's too discretionary. It isn't an actual policy you can point to if someone to decides to become zealously sexist or homophobic in a software project -- things that I haven't encountered much, but if you're maintaining a project with 10,000+ stars and hundreds of contributors, maintainers sometimes have to wear a moderator hat.
You do have to moderate, but it's not clear that a CoC makes any difference. You have people that are chill, people that will take direction when they unintentionally are not, and assholes. A CoC doesn't help with any of that.
When I read some of the rather hateful comments coming from the most ardent proponents of CoCs, I feel like something's really gone wrong with the project.
>Once again, we are not going to tolerate our community being overridden by the mob. If this starts to happen, we will nuke, delete, lock, close, ban, and do whatever we have to do to put the fire out. These discussions drag on and on and on, and they don't make communities better.
"if you don't shut up about being mistreated by our community, we're going to ban you"
The level of sheltered techbro is too strong.
If you can afford to "not care" about issues, shut the fuck up yourself and don't try to shut out others who are affected by these issues with bullshit like this.
>Q: Your name is offensive. CoC sounds like Cock, and I feel that this is a group of white males that is trying to downplay the seriousness of this issue in our community, and I boycott your movement, and am going to tell others to as well!
Nice strawman. Wow.
Also way to demonize everyone who is sick of techbros being assholes by calling them "the mob".
"No Code of Conduct", to me, looks like what All Lives Matter is to Black Lives Matter, that is, a deflection from the actual problem.
I somewhat agree with the general 'Don't be a jerk' principle. It has its place. But it doesn't scale for large projects.
This problem is, it's too discretionary. It isn't an actual policy you can point to if someone to decides to become zealously sexist or homophobic in a software project -- things that I haven't encountered much, but if you're maintaining a project with 10,000+ stars and hundreds of contributors, maintainers sometimes have to wear a moderator hat.