Nov 8, 2026, 12:55 PM@tragivictoria @mishari @xaq @alexandra
Not really. This was an extreme hypothetical example raised by someone else (Brian). Eli's response was: we can't start checking moral compass of every contribution. It's impractical and murky.
Do we make every contributor sign the JSON license[1]?
If you have any specific objections, please make them. "Evil" is not a useful one.
@tzafrir @tragivictoria @mishari @xaq @alexandra no, we make contributors sign CoCs. And yes, that’ll cause a split. Good.
Nov 8, 2026, 1:54 PM@chucker @tragivictoria @mishari @xaq @alexandra
A CoC is very practical and very actionable. I have no idea who Jia Tan, or Jane Doe, is. They might actually be a slave trader or a botnet operator. I can't tell.
But if Jia Tan starts misbehaving around my community, that is something I know very well and should react to.
A CoC is not about who you are or what you think. It is about what you do in our community (mailing list, conference, whatever).
Nov 8, 2026, 4:02 PM@tzafrir @tragivictoria @mishari @xaq @alexandra “if we reject one evil thing we’ll need to reject other evil things too, WHERE WILL IT END” is not the massive slam dunk you think it is