RedHat employee bans Hyprland creator from FDO
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I understand person is a board member of conduct group for FDO. But using the redhat email is definitely a 1990s power move.
If RH or IBM have no association, then this is likely grounds for punishment or sudden dismissal. Even if the RH guy is “right”.
Whole situation smells to me.
This, unfortunately, is an extremely common occurrence throughout many dev communities today. Sadly, companies still have not learned the kind of damage it does to them and how inappropriate this kind of abuse is. Still someone should let RedHat representatives know that the account rights are being misused.
Perhaps creating a list is in order, so we know who to never give any rights to manage the community or participate across multiple projects?
Not agreeing with the CoC is one thing, but FDO is a community and it needs to be able to create a safe and inclusive space for its members.
I'm a FDO member and I see no problem here, the CoC existing and being upheld is a good thing.
Thinly and not so thinly veiled threats to another person to police their own, not related to FDO in any way, shape or form, community because it does not adhere to your political ideology sounds like a severe abuse of power to me.
No one is owed FDO membership.
FDO is a community, and having people be treated with respect is crucial for maintaining this community. Letting people with a history of not respecting others be a part of that community is a problem, even if that behavior was displayed elsewhere.
I don't remember since when "bowing down to threats" is adhering to CoC and "openly threatening someone over resolved conflicts under the suspicion of wrongthink" was "respectful behavior from community representatives".
Either way, it is always "we're just policing the bad people" until the bad person is you.
It doesn't address the contents of this particular incident, rather it alludes to vague and nice-sounding moral principles thereby brushing off the whole specific issue. It is interesting, because by staying general the author gets to shrink from taking the responsibility of giving their actual opinion on the specific incident itself.
Drew's response at https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-en... comes across as a more complete telling of the situation.