When a group of people making a piece of software go out of their way to include a text like this:

"Be as politics-free as possible; solutions should be decided on the basis of technical merit."

That's a red flag for me. Everything is politics, always. It follows that all software and all attempts to organize anything is inherently a political endeavor.

Furthermore, personally, I have a sneaking suspicion that the people who write this kind of thing are fascists. Pft! "politics-free" my ass