Frankly the harsh response from proponents and
handling here, to the
point of bypassing normal processes and misusing rights to enforce
something that was never even decided as a community, seems completely
at odds with the spirit and intent of the CoC in the first place. If
we're trying to make contributors feel welcome, this is if anything
doing the exact opposite.
This!
It is not the first time that individual developers have misused their +2 rights to
sidestep community processes and enforce their political views. It is this kind of
repeated overreach and casual disregard for the wishes and opinions of the repo owner that
makes people choose GitHub over Gerrit.
It is a pity that there is even a need for a CoC, but I am more than happy to have one if
it helps to make people feel more comfortable. But insinuating that not wanting that file
in each and every repo would imply disagreement with the code itself is not only
insulting, it has a chilling effect on the communication here. And by now, since this has
happened and has been called out repeatedly in this discussion, I consider it
intentional.
The whole issue is another nice demonstration of why "benevolent" dictatorship
and decisions taken "for your own good" do not work.
Incidentally, what is the procedure to request removal of +2 rights for somebody on my
extension repo?
Stephan