Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] CodingGuidelines: recommend singular they

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2021, 17:26 UTC
Message-ID: <60c8e2cb81e50_12c28208c2@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <87a6nryt51.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15 2021, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

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> Anyway, I don't think I'll be participating in this topic any
> further. It seems you're not interested in pursuing alternate approaches
> that accomplish your goals, or in responding to specific point-by-point
> feedback on your series from myself and others.
> 
> I do think it would be a much better and respectful use of everyone's
> time on this ML if you clearly stated your unwillingness to deviate from
> the narrow approach in the initial version of a series you're
> submitting.

For what it's worth I also feel that's the case. 95% of my suggestions for improvement were completely ignored, and it's only when the maintainer threatened to merge my competing series, that I started receiving responses.

I don't believe critical feedback has been welcomed, I don't believe my time as a reviewer was respected, and mostly it felt like talking to a wall.

I find it ironic that a patch series that boasts of promoting inclusion and diversity completely ignores the most important diversity the project should care about:

Diversity of thought.

While claiming to be trying to avoid hypothetical people from feeling excluded, it actively excluded the opinions of actual people.

-- 
Felipe Contreras