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Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC



(I see that because of my mistake, this thread continued on both
-project and -vote. If you think it's better to restrict it to either
list, please say so.)

Hello Sam and others,

I did not want to derail the discussion. As I wrote, I made those
examples because I believed that they would help making my point
understood. But I see that I obtained the opposite effect -- everybody
focused on the examples and nobody seems to have got what I was trying
to say. I am sorry for that.

But no, I don't think that it was inappropriate to choose examples
outside of Debian, because my point was exactly that this is an issue
not specific to Debian and heavily connected to politics, thus
politically loaded examples were right to the point. In fact, I
thought they were the best examples exactly for that reason (and also
because they are examples that everybody is familiar with).

Anyway, thank you for clarifying that using people's preferred
pronouns is a requisite for being welcome in Debian. As I read them,
neither the CoC nor the Diversity Statement are explicit on that.
Maybe it would be useful to make it explicit?

Gerardo



Il giorno gio 12 dic 2019 alle ore 13:47 Sam Hartman
<hartmans@debian.org> ha scritto:
>
> >>>>> "Sam" == Sam Hartman <leader@debian.org> writes:
>
>     Sam> In adopting the Diversity Statement and the Code of Conduct
>     Sam> we've committed to welcoming people to the project regardless
>     Sam> of how they identify the project.
>
> Sigh.
> This should have been regardless of how they identify themselves.


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