> it's about managing people.

That's a big claim for a volunteer project.

> how is that affecting your ability to drive the project forward?

Then the article should have focused on this point. If there is data to be exposed then I'm interested. So far I've only seen catty allegations with nothing concrete to back them up.

> This isn't Brendan Eich quietly donating to the Prop 8 campaign

I similarly don't care. If you simply cannot contribute to a project because you cannot agree with every single decision of it's maintainer then I think you should evaluate your own emotions before attacking others.

> some alternative standard that imagines their role as a purely technical one.

When did this purported standard become recognized or defined? I'm continuing to see a lack of evidence for these claims.