[ruby-core:73527] Re: [Ruby trunk - Misc #12004] Code of Conduct

[Andrew Kirilenko <andrew.kirilenko@gmail.com>]

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>This is a deflection. The problem that some of us are calling out is that
*you may not see the problems* because you are not attuned to them. I
rarely see the problems because I’m not attuned to them naturally (this is
something I have to work at because I reflect the majority in many
different ways).

So go and show us examples of someone being treated differently due to
his/her/it sexual, religious or any other views/habits/believes by Ruby
community. While you are at it, I'd like to remind you about Elia still
being harassed by this fine group due to his believes. Problem with this
code of conduct is that it'll reduce freedoms and rights of people not
sharing your version of reality.

>See, this is part of the problem. Yes, there are women who code. But there
are subtle disincentives to contribution for a lot of women, and
comparisons like this (“I haven’t seen anything useful, so nothing she’s
done must be useful”) are one such disincentive.

And this is words juggling. Yes, there are women who code, no one is
arguing with this. Some of them are good at it, some of them are bad - just
like men. I was talking about particular case - Coraline - and I would have
asked same questions if she 'd be male or undecided or whatever. For what I
care you are all letters on my display and I treat you all equally.

Next statements are just statistics derived from my 20 years of experience
as engineer (working with different teams in different counties) and some
publicly available data. In any team, I worked with, women/men are ~
1/10.If you'll look at github and look for accounts with photos on them -
like 90% of them will be of caucasian or asian male. I'm not trying to
imply anything from these facts (e.g. best engineer I worked with during my
career was actually black (and I don't care about USA PC - we call black
people "black" here and everybody, including black people, are OK with
that)), just something for you to think about.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Andrew Kirilenko <
> andrew.kirilenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1. While I am using Ruby for past 15 years literally on daily basis, I am
>> not affilated with the Ruby project in any way. What I will state below
>> should be interpreted as my personal opinion and should not be used against
>> Ruby project in any form.
>> 2. I have nothing against people with any sexual habbits. Personally, I
>> have FtM friend and quite few gay friends. I respect them for what they do
>> in their professional life and/or other areas we share. I can't care less
>> for what they do in their bedrooms. It's their life, they can do whatever
>> they want with it.
>>
> 3. I separate my professional activities from my other activities. I'd
>> work with trans, gay, child molester, serial killer, even Hitler himself if
>> they will add value to the project, I'm working on.
>>
>
> A couple of quick notes, starting here: your statement here is something
> that reflects a systematic cultural bias. In general, people of minority
> status cannot separate their minority status(es) from their professional
> work any more than people of majority status can separate their majority
> status(es) from their professional work. It may seem like someone who is in
> a majority position can do so, but that is only because their majority
> status *permeates the culture* within which they work. Understand, I am
> *not* passing judgement on this systematic cultural bias, merely calling it
> out as an explicit thing. People who are minorities are *consistently*
> reminded of that minority status on a regular basis without anyone even
> trying.
>
>
>> Does Ruby project need this code of conduct? Definitely no. I interacted
>> with community (mostly @ IRC channel) and it was ALWAYS nice, welcoming and
>> helpful. No exceptions. Even matz answered my (not always properly
>> formulated, I must admit) questions several times. No one asked anything
>> about my sex, age, skin color, nationality, religious believes or anything
>> else not related to the problem in question. I simply don't see problem
>> which should be solved with this code of conduct.
>>
>
> This is a deflection. The problem that some of us are calling out is that
> *you may not see the problems* because you are not attuned to them. I
> rarely see the problems because I’m not attuned to them naturally (this is
> something I have to work at because I reflect the majority in many
> different ways).
>
>
>> Now let's look at Coraline's github. What we see there? Right, code of
>> conduct itself and few forks and hello worlds. Did she added anything
>> useful to community? Maybe, but not for me. Rest of the guys and gils from
>> this fine group? I forced myself to check 5 more accounts (in order of
>> appearing in (in)famous opal #941) - all the same - endless hello worlds
>> and playgrounds. Nothing even remotely useful. Of course, my opinion is
>> biased by Coraline's personality here, so I might be totally wrong. So,
>> Coraline, show us your code and I'll appologize to you personally. And no,
>> statements of your friends "Coraline is one of the most seasoned developers
>> I seen" or "Coraline is panelist of ruby rogues" (I don't even understand
>> what does it mean) does not count.
>>
>
> See, this is part of the problem. Yes, there are women who code. But there
> are subtle disincentives to contribution for a lot of women, and
> comparisons like this (“I haven’t seen anything useful, so nothing she’s
> done must be useful”) are one such disincentive.
>
> If you want a few examples from the Ruby community, look at:
>
> * mperham/sidekiq
> * rails/rails (or rails/rails.github.com)
> * rspec/rspec
>
> I’ve only added it to mime-types/ruby-mime-types so far, but will be
> adding it to halostatue/diff-lcs, halostatue/minitar, and halostatue/color
> in the coming months (among others as I make modifications).
>
> I’m not looking to make anyone believe what I believe. What I’m telling
> people is that as long as I’m running those projects and maintaining those
> gems, I will be holding both myself and anyone who contributes to the
> projects to a high standard designed to combat harassment and create a more
> welcoming environment.
>
> -a
> --
> Austin Ziegler • halostatue@gmail.com • austin@halostatue.ca
> http://www.halostatue.ca/ • http://twitter.com/halostatue
>
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