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SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Undoubtedly in response to this politically motivated sort of claptrap, SQLite has released their own Code of Conduct. From the preamble:

Having been encouraged by clients to adopt a written code of conduct, the SQLite developers elected to govern their interactions with each other, with their clients, and with the larger SQLite user community in accordance with the "instruments of good works" from chapter 4 of The Rule of St. Benedict. This code of conduct has proven its mettle in thousands of diverse communities for over 1,500 years, and has served as a baseline for many civil law codes since the time of Charlemagne.

Not everyone has found SQLite's attempt informative or funny (though many did). A developer wrote, for instance, "So is the SQLite CoC thing a joke or not? If it's not a joke, f*ck this. If it is a joke, that's even worse. Your CoC should be taken seriously." A security researcher, chimed in, "This sort of stunt will make actual code of conduct discussions harder. It's not funny, helpful, or wise."


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  1. BRILLIANT by TimMD909 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good job for SQLite! I like 19 (Console the sorrowing) the most. I also want to start a new project called "Sorrowing: The Console". It'd be like bash, but all the messages would be drenched in existential dread.

    1. Re:BRILLIANT by ItsJustAPseudonym · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean PowerShell?

  2. Wrong by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is what happens to your fingers naturally after a lifetime of reaching for the Meta key in combination with other keystrokes.

    He literally cannot put the fingers together anymore.

    Emacs master.

    --
    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
  3. Code_of_COMMANDMENTS by HeckRuler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not use something a little more updated:

    I am the sysadmin, thy savior, which have brought thee out of th elands of paper, out of the house of bondage

    1. Thou shalt have no other sysadmin before me
    2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any Gaben image
    3. Thou shalt not email thy sysadmin in vain
    4. Remember it's the weekend, keep it holy, don't call
    5. Honour thy manager and thy HR
    6. Thou shalt not kill -9
    7. Thou shalt not commit adultery on company computers
    8. Thou shalt not torrent
    9. Thou shalt not bear false witness on thine tickets
    10. Thou shalt not covet they neighbors hardware, nor his software, nor anything else.

    Ye shall erect these memos which I command thee upon mount cubicle

  4. Re: Why even adopt it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is it a joke? Why do other open source communities condone murder by not explicitly disallowing it in their CoCs?

    Someone wants to work on ReiserFS?