I don’t know about you, but I find these types of conversations pretty toxic. And ironically is worse for our community than any outcome of this conversation.
If I don’t speak up when people wanna remove metrics on women and others in NixOS, it might just happen. That’s why.
And @TeofilC does make a great point, at least to me, that if @srid has a whole section on “wokeism”, then perhaps there isn’t as much good faith as I presumed, and it makes it easier for me to realize that engaging with him might be a waste of time.
I’d take a step back and say “what are factors that prevent people in general”. Here, the lack of a project wide code of conduct is an obvious step. Hopefully those RFCs pan out.
Then, instead of speaking of women, we might just generalize to non-men (since women and other are both low). I’d say that one thing we could do is not become blind to their participation, as @srid suggests. Keep the gender identity statistics.
If we “first do no harm”, then perhaps more opportunities will present themselves. I could spitball on those, but it’s usually good to keep somewhat focused on a few issues at a time.