I doubt this addresses your concerns, but in reviewing the wording in CONTRIBUTING.md to try to understand where you are coming from, I made a few changes to clarify that by "comments" I meant "code comments", and to further state that documentation and translations are naturally likely to be a mix of human and AI work.
I will admit I took a focused stance on the wording, expecting that people would know that there will be exceptions and we can address them as they arise. Sean On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-05-19 at 18:49, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > > >> The only way it could be reasonable is if this is an > >> intentional-parody setup > > > > I do cover it in the CONTRIBUTING document, I'll include that section > > below. I'll add further color by saying that the idea came to me as, > > in your words, an intentional parody, in the shower a few days ago. > > But the more I thought about it the more I felt it was an important > > social experiment to run. The phrase "somebody has to be first" came > > to mind as well. > > >> From the CONTRIBUTING.md: > > <snip> > > I read that, in the document after downloading it, yes. > > I'll be blunt: > > That clause not only leaves me disinclined to contribute to the project, > but disinclined to use it, and inclined to recommend *against* other > people using it. The explanations you give in that document do not help > with this, and some of them actually strengthen it. > > Even if we leave aside all the other possible reasons (for one thing, > the other side's arguments having merit doesn't mean that reversing them > also has merit; for another, having the reversed setup be something > someone's actually trying helps give credit to "both-sides-ism" > arguments, even if that wasn't your intent), the aspect of "if you want > to express your disagreement with this principle and not have me ignore > you, you must follow this principle in how you express that > disagreement" or "if you don't accept our policy enough to at least use > it for talking to us, we will reject any attempt at talking to us you > make" is... mildly offensive to me, to put it mildly. > > (I try not to focus very deeply or very long on such offenses nowadays, > because I know from experience that if I do so, I can and will devolve > into an apoplectic rage. And that's not helpful to *me*, much less to > anyone else.) > > -- > The Wanderer > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > >
