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LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @08:50AM   
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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Original Submission

• Re:Good on him (Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Saturday May 05 2018, @05:55AM

  by jmorris (4844) on Saturday May 05 2018, @05:55AM (#675988)

  Of course. The people who are going from project to project and agitating for CoCs already have the "Diversity and Inclusion" initiatives from those other projects already ready to impose. They have all of the arguments from previous projects how the "Inclusion initiatives" are required to give the "spirit of the CoC meaning" and all that other $current_year babble. The people pushing these are a hostile force, they do not care about the projects they infect and could care less if they destroy most of them. Any entity not under their control is an enemy, any though occurring that they do not police is a danger.

  And consider this. No SJW converged entity has ever been cleansed. Not just in software, none. Ever. They themselves would gleefully destroy any that appeared to be slipping from their grasp so there is no point even trying. When they consume one the only rational response is to, after having fought the takeover with maximum effort, quickly abandon it. Most software projects do not have a lot of resources that can't be quickly replicated, even the name is something everyone is by now accustomed to having change. Fork em and move on. Unlike say the Boy Scouts, who have extensive resources and history but the same solution applies, as painful as it might be you have to just let it go and fork.

  The SJW locust produces nothing of value, deprive them of your contributions and that will quickly become apparent. And after the fork establish a simple CoC that simply says:

    1. Be excellent.

    2. Don't be a jerk, we don't want to ban anyone who is contributing but we also don't want to have to stop our own work to teach you basic social skills either.

    3. We are working here. A few offtopic posts, lulz, bantz, etc. is a cultural tradition that fosters our community but there is a place for flamewars and other offtopic crap. 4chan. Use it.

    4. Anyone proposing a change to this document is banished for life from {name of project}.

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