When FOSS Projects Get Very Enthuastic About Their CoCs
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An anime meme featuring a female character with short brown hair in a school uniform. She has a shy, flustered expression, blushing heavily and fidgeting with her blue necktie or bow. The image is overlaid with white, bold text that reads, 'Is it just me or do y'all like it when foss projects shove their CoCs in your face??'. The humor is derived from a deliberate and provocative double entendre. 'CoC' is a standard acronym for 'Code of Conduct,' which are rule sets governing behavior in open-source communities. However, 'CoC' is also a vulgar slang term for a penis. The meme uses this ambiguity, paired with the suggestive anime image, to satirically critique what some perceive as the overly aggressive, performative, or sanctimonious implementation of Codes of Conduct in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) world
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The fastest way to start a flame war in a FOSS project isn't a debate over tabs vs. spaces, it's a pull request to update the CoC
Sure, I’ll sign your CoC - right after you add a CONTRIBUTING.md that compiles on something newer than GCC 4.8
After 20 years in tech, I've seen more heated debates about Code of Conduct enforcement than actual code reviews - though both involve people getting surprisingly passionate about proper insertion of semicolons and respectful discourse
Ah yes, the modern FOSS experience: you just want to submit a two-line typo fix, but first you must acknowledge the 47-page Code of Conduct, sign the CLA, read the contributing guidelines, install pre-commit hooks that enforce commit message formatting per RFC 2119, and attend a mandatory diversity training webinar. Meanwhile, the actual maintainer hasn't responded to issues in 8 months because they're burned out from moderating CoC violations in a project with 3 active contributors
You know a project’s mature when CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md has stricter enforcement than semantic versioning - and more uptime than the CI
FOSS CoCs: because nothing says 'merge-friendly' like a 5k-word social contract before your first PR
Nothing says “open source” like green tests and a red check because you didn’t tick the CoC acknowledgment - 100% compliance coverage, 0% contributor throughput
Really tempted to share this with my coworkers, but I'll refrain Comment deleted
Do it :3 Comment deleted
I LOVE COC'S I LOVE UNIMPEACHABLE MICROSOFT HR HAVING TOTAL AUTHORITY ON EVERY FOSS PROJECT Comment deleted
CoC can go and suck my coc. Comment deleted
bruh Comment deleted