A contributor to the Hyprland project (a dynamic window tiling manager), Vaxry, who he and others on his Discord is critical and joking of pronouns (who/cares), does not care about the political background of contributors or users of Hyprland and is concerned about the creep of ideology into the free and open source ecosystem.
Background:
From his critic: https://archive.ph/Sfvlr And Vaxry's rebuttal: https://archive.ph/jMoKB
He called out the bad apples who wish to impose their purity testing onto projects and users:
Subsequently his concerns were dismissed as transphobia and national socialism by his opponents which led to a member of RedHat, FreeDesktop and Xorg to tell him via a RedHat email address that he is in violation of the Code of Conduct for behaviour outside of the project and if he continues he will be banned.
And subsequently calling this out publicly got him banned.
And the other side justifying this move for balance:
As a consequence, he can no longer contribute code to FreeDesktop including Xorg and Wayland, critical components for a tiling window manager. And there is now a push to banish the "deeply toxic" Hyprland project from distributions and deal with "problematic" users to purge them from free and open source software, including their forks.
It looks as if the purity testing in free and open source software is spreading. And there are increasing numbers of individuals drunk with power who wish to impose their values, beliefs and codes onto everyone else. The Linux Kernel already replaced its Code of Conflict with the Code of Conduct. Not just with FreeDesktop, I've seen the same principles being made within the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, RedHat and other important project contributors and users. Now we're seeing purity testing and gatekeeping in the same regard as we've seen elsewhere in proprietary software, gaming and other media.
I don't know anything about this particular open source project but Godot has had issues as well but luckily the devs have sort of gatekept it. A quick summary of how these retards manage to even get into these open source projects because I'm sure it can be confusing to outsiders.
. They can't code
. Instead they write up phony policy changes to stuff on Github so they can declare themselves 'developers'
. Sometimes depending on how shameless they are they'll fork projects and pretend it's their own work and blatantly plagiarise
. Infestation of moderator positions and other attempts at power grabs are frequent
It's right to call these people an infestation.
What issues did Godot have?
Generally I'd say the engine itself is fine though autists way more familiar with the back end compared to me might have some gripes. There was a shit stirrer recently who tried to start something with the devs themselves and was trying to claim they were funnelling donations or something to their own private company which was a separate project to what the Godot engine was.
In reality, he was actually a retard and completely misunderstood what was going on. In his defence, it was a little bit complicated and I could see how he would misinterpret. Instead of admitting his fuck up though he doubled down massively and started sperging out even after he was called out on it and this lead to a bit of a collapse on the forum with the ownership transferring to moderators. The lot of them are definitely woke to a degree even though they try to hide it and to that typical woke thing of pretending it's no big deal what they're doing.
At the end of the day though, those people despite being listed on the official site have no say in development. So for now it looks like the engine is going to be fine, but it is something to be wary of.
Thank you. I saw the 'Code of Conduct' on their site and was worried that the developers could shut down projects they didn't like.