Re: Build Boost Back Better

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-04-07 12:57:46

On 4/7/22 15:19, Dominique Devienne via Boost wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 1:41 PM Mateusz Loskot via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 at 10:37, Andrey Semashev via Boost
>>> Gender has no bearing in Boost community
>>
>> +1 I couldn't express my own thoughts on that matter better.
> 
> If gender was such a non-issue, then we wouldn't have [affirmative
> action][1] (in general)
> or [gender-quotas-by-law][2] in our societies.

My personal opinion is that any quota-based approach is detrimental to
the community. Not just Boost community, but in general. The moment you
start segregating people by qualities irrelevant to that community focus
and goals, you are introducing social divide in the community and you
are taking away from its efficiency.