Re: Guix role in a free society

[Tobias Alexandra Platen <guix@platen-software.de>]

I am transgender and plan to contribute to Guix soon. Mostly submitting
packages and so on. I never saw any violation of the code of conduct,
but this does not mean they do not exist. 

On Mon, 2024-03-18 at 20:26 +0200, MSavoritias wrote:
> 
> On 3/18/24 20:16, Tomas Volf wrote:
> > On 2024-03-18 18:48:27 +0100, Vivien Kraus wrote:
> > > The guix users, I claim, would rather have a distribution of guix
> > > (and
> > > the packages it provides) with accurate personal information,
> > > even if
> > > it means to be annoyed for a moment with a security system.
> > Single data point: As a Guix user (and occasional contributor,
> > albeit not a
> > committer), I would very much prefer a system that does not rewrite
> > the history.
> > When someone wants to correct their name (for whatever reason), I
> > would prefer
> > it to be done going forward, not retroactively.
> > 
> > I think making such broad statements without some empirical study
> > is not great,
> > since it is, as you said yourself, just your claim not supported by
> > anything (as
> > far as I can tell).
> > 
> > Tomas Volf
> > 
> > --
> > There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
> > cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
> 
> It pretty easy to see who most people that use Guix agree with that 
> actually. Check what the CoC says right here -> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT
> 
> > We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make
> > participation 
> in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone,
> regardless 
> of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex 
> characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience,
> education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, 
> race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. We 
> pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, 
> welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community. |
> 
> So since the Guix community have agreed to make it welcoming to 
> everybody we have to take into account people that will want to
> change 
> their names.
> 
> Social inclusion and people are above any tech ideals we may have.
> 
> 
> We dont need to rewrite history at all also. There was a solution 
> already by Gitlab which was also proposed in the other thread (for
> legal 
> reasons) to do with UUIDs.
> 
> 
> MSavoritias
> 
>