Luci@lemmy.ca to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 个月前SerenityOS and LadyBirds: Because These Things Shouldn't Hide in Closed Git Conversations - ░ Nova Onlinecmdr-nova.onlineexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1122arrow-down1external-linkSerenityOS and LadyBirds: Because These Things Shouldn't Hide in Closed Git Conversations - ░ Nova Onlinecmdr-nova.onlineLuci@lemmy.ca to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 个月前message-square83fedilinkfile-text
Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS
minus-squareunknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up46·9 个月前Look… I certainly (particularly verbally) will probably use “he” a lot more than I should… And no one cares. But if someone makes a PR changing these into “they”, I would reply with “shit, you’re right, this is objectively better, thanks for your work”. Instead, these contributors get their PR shut down with the most terrible, supremacist excuse. That’s the problem. There’s the true idiot.
minus-square_edge@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up30·9 个月前Obviously. It was a nice small PR to fix a typo and a pronoun in a readme file. This is the kind of change where you just press Accept, Merge, and go on with your life.
Look… I certainly (particularly verbally) will probably use “he” a lot more than I should… And no one cares.
But if someone makes a PR changing these into “they”, I would reply with “shit, you’re right, this is objectively better, thanks for your work”.
Instead, these contributors get their PR shut down with the most terrible, supremacist excuse. That’s the problem. There’s the true idiot.
Obviously. It was a nice small PR to fix a typo and a pronoun in a readme file. This is the kind of change where you just press Accept, Merge, and go on with your life.