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I'm trying hard to follow what is happening on that twitter thread.

Can you put your joke here? I don't see any jokes or mention of race anywhere on your Twitter.

Yeah, sorry, I will try to make a long story short.

For years I've had Bundler set to just run jobs equal to the number of cores on my system. However, I noticed it was running one less so I assumed I was doing something wrong. After hours of banging my head against the wall, I finally found that it Bundler subtracts 1 from the number of jobs you pass to it, but this behavior has been removed from master (for eventual 2.x branch). A bit irate, I engaged in the following exchange w/ Andre, in which he accused me of violating their CoC for posting a bit of a kneejerk comment, which I apologized for, but questioned what I possibly could've violated in the CoC, in the process making a wisecrack about the ridiculous term in it about "making casual references to slavery or indentured servitude." Anyway, if you really want to dig in, here's the github thread:

https://github.com/bundler/bundler/pull/5808#issuecomment-38...

In the end, he banned me (it says 24 hrs in his comment, but it seems permanent) which has now prevented me from submitting a PR to document the very "feature" that threw me into this rage to begin with. Way to run an OSS project!

I think his response, except for the ban, was appropriate

Was part of his response that he doesn't need the money of someone who makes racial jokes? Good riddance? That's a pretty strong statement to make over Twitter, esp. since if you read through the whole thing, that's someone trying to forcefully make a suggestion about racial insensitivity, which is at best journalistic twisting.

What irks me about such responses is that it's not your prerogative to retract anything you say about anyone over the internet. It might not even be your prerogative to correct any of your statements.

agreed, it's the ban I take issue with. felt pretty power-trippy to me.

I wonder if your 24 hour ban became permanent because of the Twitter post.

That sucks because you can see how close this issue was to being quashed when you ~90% apologized.

not losing any sleep about it, although I really can't comprehend why, as an OSS maintainer, you want to reduce your pool of contributors over something so petty.

Oh, also, if it did, that's pretty bad because he banned me for pulling funding...?

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