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mcintyre1994

That would indeed be objectionable! For someone unfamiliar with that history, can you give a few projects I should read up on to find out more?

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Yes, you should read up on the Contributor Covenant. The creator of which is notorious for aggressively pushing to get the CoC included into projects and then harassing developers. Here's one of the more famous examples:

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

Also see how the creator tried to force this CoC into Ruby:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004

Didn't these people also get upset over some projects documentation using "he"? I remember seeing a massive thread about the Issue requesting gender neutral language and the maintainer spiked it. On another note it sure seems like CoC are often weaponized by people who engage in wrong think.

edit: found link -> https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015

They should try to force this CoC into Linux kernel :-D

Oh god I want to read Linus' reply :D Better than a Netflix subscription for a year or so.

How about an actual example of "usurping actual contributing developers and shifting the project focus from something technical to something political."? Just trying doesn't count.

OMG, this is priceless:

  > Our community prides itself on niceness. What a code 
  > of conduct does is define what we mean by nice.

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