Stop spreading this nonsense. He made ONE comment that made it clear he is not accepting contributions for political reason from people not part of the project.
The “freakout” was entirely external.
Comment on Servo vs Ladybird.
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If you’re leaving firefox for ideological reasons you may want to also avoid Ladybird. The dev had a public freakout over the idea that women exist.
mnmalst@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
At this point I’m going to personally donate to Ladybird because you people have been spreading this bullshit for months
CodeBlooded@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Source?
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
CodeBlooded@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It looks more like that the dev felt the PR being introduced was purely for political reasons, which he disliked. I’m not saying I agree with the dev, but you’ve stated he “had a public freakout over the idea that women exist” and that doesn’t appear to to be the case here.
Consider that claims like yours, and the responses to his rejection of the PR, probably only strengthened his interpretation of the PR’s intent.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
the dev is a recovered addict and ex-convict who took up os development to be able to focus on something other than the world around him, in a country where the pronouns debate barely exists. him initially not accepting a documentation change from an unknown contributor that only changes pronouns does not qualify as a public freakout.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
All code is political. If he had accepted the change, even after initially being skeptical, no one would care. But he picked a side in the dumb culture war and stuck with it.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
but… he did. the documentation has all been changed to use second-person pronouns for user actions. that was years ago.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s good to hear, if true. I’m not an expert at git, I’ve just seen the two issues that were both closed as won’tfix. I think they’d help their PR a lot if they just updated those issues.