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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m surprised this got any kind of attention.

  Here’s the turn of events from my perspective:

  1. Someone submits a 1-line PR changing the gender used in a code comment
  2. PR rejected on the grounds that the change is "politically motivated"
  3. Submitter got mad, and proposed removing the rule against “politically motivated” changes
  4. Someone wrote a blog post about it

  Here’s my analysis:

  1. Stupid change - don’t make PRs that simply correct an irrelevant typo in a comment somewhere; some people do this to put stuff on a resume (look at how much FOSS work I do!), and it just wastes everyone’s time
  2. Stupid response - it should’ve been rejected because it’s a useless change, not because it’s "politically motivated"
  3. Stupid proposal - do you really want to waste a bunch of time fighting over wording in a comment? Because that’s the kind of crap you get without a rule like this.
  4. This is all about an irrelevant change to a comment? Why is this getting so much attention?

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “comments must be accurate,” is not a rule you should bend. Bending it even a little leads to last programming and shit code.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True, but that only applies if it’s misleading. For example:

      // pythagoran theorem 
      distance = abs(p2.x - p1.x) + abs(p2.y - p1.y); 
      

      Fixing that makes sense because it’s wrong and misleading (it’s actually Manhattan distance), and a quick glace is insufficient to tell the difference.

      But fixing a typo or something that wouldn’t be confusing is just noise and should only be fixed with other changes. For example, I intentionally misspelled Pythagorean in my comment above, fixing that to be the right spelling would be a useless change, even if the distance formula used the hypotenuse. It wouldn’t be an unreasonable policy to reject PRs that only fix spelling to reduce noise for the maintainers.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yep, I understand but disagree. Maybe it comes from working with so many ESL coders, but I’ll happily accept typo corrections because it’s not always obvious what words should be if you’re not steeped in the culture.

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  • pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I should be an idiot. I dont see a direct relationship between race and sexual orientation. Even if the PR was rejected because a pronounce how the hell this is white supremacist?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, didn’t the Nazis also discriminate against gay people?

      That said, it’s a massive leap to go from “rejects 1 line PR that only changes gender in a comment” to literal Nazi…

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• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “We don’t accept ideologically motivated changes” = White supremacist language…

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• gon@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank you for sharing.

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