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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Is there any source for this?

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 0 points 1 hour ago

No, there is no source, because it's an overinflated nothingburger created to stir up controversy and division.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

i know there was a thing at the beginning of the project where they wrote a lot of the documentation with masculine pronouns (assuming the reader was male), and when they were asked to change that for gender neutral pronouns, they said no because "they don’t want politics in their project"

beyond that however, idk if they eventually changed that or if they did other bad stuff

edit: here is a source

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 17 hours ago

Not really. A random person submitted a PR with just one pronoun change in the code comments (not the documentation, and not anything remotely visible to the end user).

The developer rejected the (useless, in my opinion) PR.