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SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org)
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."
If you do not know how to act like a responsible adult, perhaps you should try harder. It is your choice, but do not expect others to play along with your childish and rogue behavior. Correct the behavior or get locked out. But no one needs a silly code of conduct - this is like mission statements of the 80s and 90s. Largely forgotten and rarely achieved.
Good job! Don't let the SJW's push you around.
that tells you more about them than about the joke. Congrats to SQLite. That's one project that "gets it". Anyone who thinks that "this sort of stunt will make actual code of conduct discussions harder" hasn't even got the message (which coincidentally is one data point in favor of using more direct language...)
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.
Here's the type of person that is likely to go out of their way to take umbrage over something relatively minor. The kind of person who's happy to shove a CoC down your throat as long its theirs, but will scream about having to follow some other set of rules that they don't like.
Wikipedia says about Chapter 4 "These are essentially the duties of every Christian and are mainly Scriptural either in letter or in spirit." This nicely points out that a CoC has nothing to do with the actual work being done and is all about some people wanting to control the forms of interaction allowed, impose the duty to follow some meaningless rituals, universally to the detriment of the project.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
https://twitter.com/brionv/sta...
SJWs cannot abide mockery because it is a threat to their own self anointed moral authority.
SJWs are religious. Marxism is their religion, and intersectionality their tenets of faith. They believe in righteousness, sin, and punishment of unbelievers and transgressors (anyone who criticises any aspect of SJW beliefs, including their own). It goes without saying that the beliefs and their behaviour are thoroughly toxic nonsense, which is what makes them so dangerous. So given the choice between an SJW CoC and this set of fairly sensible (albeit religious) rules about living life as a good thoughtful and compassionate person, I think I'd rather be judged by the Benedictines than blue-haired SJW harridans and their enablers. At least the Benedictines allow for the forgiveness of sins and loving their enemies. SJWs don't believe in that sort of compassion, preferring to act like a pack of hyenas around anyone who shows weakness, failing Rule 64 (Hate no one) and a good number of the other rules as well!
> when you break down all CoC documents, they are asking others to be kind and do the morally correct thing.
LOL
The entire point of these SJW attacks on open source projects is to use weaponized CoCs to hijack the project and kick and publicly humiliate their ideological enemies.
node.js
Drupal
Opal
FreeBSD
Linux
All these above projects have been attacked and infiltrated by SJW mobs using weaponized CoCs to attack innocent project members for nothing more than wrongthink.
In one form or another each of these projects had weaponized CoCs rammed down the community's throats where the sickening Progressive Stack was enshrined as a fundamental precept of the project. In other words, establishing that the project is comprised of oppressors and victims and the CoC only applies to oppressors - in other words white, male, and or conservative. Toxic behavior by anyone in a 'protected class' aka 'victim class' is ignored or even encouraged.
It took only TWO DAYS for the attacks on innocent Linux developers from the time the toxic CoC was forced on the community.
Its 2018, it is time to stop these silly and dangerous claims about CoCs being these innocent little documents that 'just tell people to be nice to each other'.
> Seems like it might be a good choice for a CoC.
The other and more sinister reason is the massive attempt by SJWs to ram the toxic 'contributors covenant' by the vile Coraline Ada Ehmke and others is the creation of SJW thought police organization for all open source projects who are dumb enough to adopt it.
Essentially SJWs getting paid to sit at home combing through open source projects searching for cases of wrongthink and working behind the scenes in ideological star chambers to kick their ideological enemies.
Projects creating their own sane CoCs or even just mocking the push to adopt these toxic SJW CoCs infuriates them. They are trying to get every single open source project to adopt a single universal SJW CoC and place every project under ideological thought police.
Think this is all hyperbole, just look at the sickening attack by Coraline Ada Ehmke against Ruby's creator when he refused to bend the knee:
https://twitter.com/coralinead...
You could probably omit piety and chastity
I dunno, seems like a pretty firm way to shut down sexual harassment. "Nothing we do here has anything to do with sex, so don't go there".
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Seen as guidelines for interaction *within the project* , chastity makes perfect sense to me. In other words "don't try to get laid on the project mailing list, hitting on another developer".
That's not the purpose of project communications, and nerds are notoriously awkward at flirting, often saying the wrong thing. To avoid saying the wrong thing while trying to hook up with the QA lady, just don't try to hook up with anyone on the project.
I think it would have been very easy to edit down the core ideas into a purely secular and modern code, even if one chose to structure it similar to the original.
Maybe, but that would be missing the point. It's not ment to be a useful CoC for the SQLite project. It's a troll on the level of "it's okay to be white", except moreso: How the hell can you disagree with a 1500 year old dyed in the wool proven CoC? Well? Popcorn and watch the SJWs try.
Now to see if the project survives this hijink, which it still very much might not. I don't particularly like SQLite (and dislike its "we must have this!"-status with the likes of mozilla) so I have no strong attachment to the outcome either way. But they are playing a dangerous game. If someone has to do it, might as well be them, so kudos for doing the needful.
The only winning move is not to play
Chastity is the only honest way to go. However, you'll notice that requirement seriously interferes with recruitment in the modern world.
All similar codes I've seen pretend to be something else by forbidding unwanted sexual advances. "Unwanted" sounds oh-so reasonable, but the problem is: how do you know if an advance is unwanted if you don't try your luck? Communication between people is fragile at best. If you advance is accepted, then it was desired. Otherwise, you're a posteriori guilty of an unwanted advance and are a creep because You Should Have Known Better.
Ergo, the only sane solution is to say that all advances are unwanted in that community, which is called chastity.
Either the community is a place where one of the side-benefits is the possibility of romance/sex and where related behavior is sanctioned, or sex and romance are 100% off the menu.
I clicked on the link and am wondering why Brion Vibber has a profile picture on twitter that looks like he's taking a difficult bowel movement.
Maybe it comes with the personality.
Actually if you drop out the parts related to the practice of religion its a pretty good code of conduct for software development.
2 Love your neighbor as yourself. [ex test before commit]
3 You are not to kill, [ex crash your customers]
4 not to commit adultery; [ex don't f with your users]
5 you are not to steal [ex respect the software license]
6 nor to covet; [ex don't add a feature just because its in the commercial app you are cloning]
7 you are not to bear false witness. [ex admit it came from source forge]
8 You must honor everyone, [ex conform to the coding standard]
9 and never do to another what you do not want done to yourself. [ex replace tabs/spaces]
11 discipline your body; [ex proper ergonomics[
12 do not pamper yourself, [ex sorry, you only get one 4K monitor]
13 but love fasting. [ex sorry, only a midrange GPU]
14 You must relieve the lot of the poor, [ex contribute to open source]
15 clothe the naked, [ex comment your code]
16 visit the sick, [ex fix your bugs rather than just make them scrum tasks]
17 and bury the dead. [ex remove the dead code]
18 Go to help the troubled [ex when someone is stuck on a bug be their second set of eyes]
19 and console the sorrowing. [ex let the fanboy's PC dual boot]
20 Your way of acting should be different from the world’s way; [ex cross platform is not all the MS windows variations]
22 You are not to act in anger [ex sorry, you can't tell customers to RTFM]
23 or nurse a grudge. [ex desktop Linux, get over it]
24 Rid your heart of all deceit. [ex stop telling people they will like emacs after a little while]
25 Never give a hollow greeting of peace [ex "why yes my core code will be cross platforms"]
26 or turn away when someone needs your love. [ex Target the Android platform too]
27 Bind yourself to no oath lest it prove false, [ex "I swear I tested all my changes"]
28 but speak the truth with heart and tongue. [ex run the regression test]
29 Do not repay one bad turn with another. [ex recommend perl because someone recommended it to you]
30 Do not injure anyone, but bear injuries patiently. [ex re-run all tests after the merge but before the commit]
31 Love your enemies. [ex Target the Windows platform too]
32 If people curse you, do not curse them back but bless them instead. [ex No flamewars on the dev thread]
33 Endure persecution for the sake of justice. [ex drink the company coffee rather than leave for starbucks when getting behind on things]
34 You must not be proud, [ex fix bugs outside your niche in the codebase]
35 nor be given to wine. [ex just dual boot or run a real emulator]
36 Refrain from too much eating [ex use CPU and RAM responsibly]
37 or sleeping, [ex don't make your code slow so you can use the currently hyped programming language]
38 and from laziness. [ex don't try to apply your favorite programming language to everything]
39 Do not grumble [ex Don't bitch in comments]
40 or speak ill of others. [ex Your preferred operating system is not always the best choice]
43 Be certain that the evil you commit is always your own and yours to acknowledge. [ex commit changes only under your login]
44 Live in fear of judgment day [ex launch day
45 and have a great horror of hell. [ex developer will have to do customer support immediately after launch]
The allusion to religion - the safe space of those with low IQ - is perfect. The whole SJW movement is a bullshit, an attempt of not so smart to enter so-called intellectual scene with their own bullshit agenda. The bullshit is so obvious when we consider other competitive endeavours, such as sports. According to SJW manifesto we should stop praising the best athletes and give equal honour to underachievers, underrepresented and what not. Similarly, we should admit women in men-only sport teams, even if overall performance against other men-only teams would degrade, because it is socially just. We could go further - let's ensure that older, less prettier (with less refined biological fenotype) women will get the same amount of attention, price, gits and love as young maidens with certain evolutionary refined phenotypes which indicate good genes (beauty is just lack of deformities - youth + health, after all). Let's ignore genetic evolution, biological and social competition, let's sweep it all under the rug and replace it with manifests of praising mediocrity and inferiority (instead of leaving the system to be self-regulated - the best we could do). Attempt to impose stupid regulations on a complex systems no one really fully understand is another sign of stupidity demonstrated by religious moralists and other not so smart people. The intelligence is in seeing things as they are, not as some want them to be, and to quickly adapt accordingly. There are innumerable examples of how really diverse and complex social environments very quickly settle down to an unwritten behavioral patterns without any of self-appointed social justices or any moral authority of idiots. Look no farther that any asian megapolis, places like Kathmandu (they have deep environmental problems but not the social ones) or Tokyo or Shanghai, Singapore, etc, etc. No superimposed written bullshit is required. And, yes, some people have better IQ or fenotypes and bringing them back down to the level of major mediocrity is, ironically, as bad as any other suppression of minorities and underrepresented groups.