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LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @08:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the Nice-Big-CoC dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Rafael Avila de Espindola, one of the top contributors to the LLVM compiler toolset, has cut ties with the open source project over what he perceives as code of conduct hypocrisy and support for ethnic favoritism. In a message posted to the LLVM mailing list, de Espindola said he was leaving immediately and cited changes in the community.

LLVM project founder, Chris Lattner responded; "I applaud Rafael for standing by his personal principles, this must have been a hard decision." Lattner also insisted that "it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community."

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @03:49PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @03:49PM (#675704)

    I have a lot of respect for Rafael and I don't wish to second-guess his departure, but the CoC is far from the only thing that he's been unhappy with recently. I suspect that this was a convenient excuse for him, rather than the underlying reason for his wish to move on.

    From his message:

    The last drop was llvm associating itself with an organization that openly discriminates based on sex and ancestry (1,2). This goes directly against my ethical views and I think I must leave the project to not be associated with this.

    The #2 he references [outreachy.org] is also linked in the summary. I believe, based on his email, that he is objecting to this section:

    You must meet one of the following criteria:

    • You live any where in the world and you identify as a woman (cis or trans), trans man, or genderqueer person (including genderfluid or genderfree).
    • You live in the United States or you are a U.S. national or permanent resident living aboard, AND you are a person of any gender who is Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander

    Of course, that's just my interpretation of his email.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 05 2018, @04:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 05 2018, @04:28AM (#675976)

    Wow. They could shorten that a lot by just saying "You must not be a straight white male".

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday May 05 2018, @04:42PM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday May 05 2018, @04:42PM (#676088) Journal

    > gender-free
    Identify as a robot, problem solved. Pretty effortless for coders too. I'll close one eye and speak slowly to you, too.

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