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From The Mozilla Open Source Blog:
We are delighted to announce the first set of awards in the Mozilla Open Source Support program's "Foundational Technology" track, which supports projects that Mozilla uses or relies upon.>
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The first seven awardees are:
Buildbot: $15,000. Buildbot is a continuous build and integration system which has been immensely valuable to Mozilla over the past few years. Their award will be used to remove the term "slave" from all documentation, APIs and tests, and also to make improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud.
CodeMirror: $20,000. CodeMirror is a powerful source code editor built with Web technologies, used in the Developer Tools and in Mozilla Thimble. Their award will be used to improve support for both right-to-left languages and complex script input.
Discourse: $25,000. Discourse is online discussion forum software, used by several Mozilla communities. Their award will be used to make email a first-class interaction mechanism for Discourse, allowing Discourse instances to replace and improve upon mailing lists.
Read The Docs: $48,000. Read The Docs is a website for building and hosting documentation, used by many of Mozilla's Web projects. Their award will be used to add the ability to generate documentation from code without needing to install it, thereby making it easier to build the documentation for complex projects.
Mercurial: $75,000. Mercurial is a distributed source code management system, used heavily by Mozilla for core repositories such as mozilla-central. Their award will be used to implement better support for 'blame' (showing who last changed some code) and a better web UI.
Django: $150,000. Django is a popular server-side Web development framework, used in many Mozilla websites. Their award will be used to make Django suitable to be a back end for Web apps which use WebSockets.
Bro: $200,000. Bro is network monitoring software, which is at the heart of Mozilla's intrusion detection system for our network. Their award will be used to build the Comprehensive Bro Archive Network, a public repository of modules and plugins for Bro.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JamesNZ on Friday December 11 2015, @09:53PM
Why exactly does Mozilla want Buildbot to remove the word "slave"? Bit of a weird request.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:01PM
I don't find this weird at all, coming from Mozilla...
(Score: 5, Funny) by SanityCheck on Friday December 11 2015, @10:06PM
It's a change in terminology to better reflect change in architecture really. Before you had a Slave and Master, and the master had to tell the slave what to do and keep it in line. Now a days the worker systems can take initiative, working off of hooks... so I guess we can now call them "hookers," and the systems who collect their work can be called... I dunno, what is a cool term kids use now a days? "pimps"? Yeah let's go with that. So now we will have "Hookers and Pimps" instead of "Slaves and Masters"... pass it on.
(Score: 2) by Lunix Nutcase on Friday December 11 2015, @10:30PM
But they'll keep using a software called Bro. Fucking hypocrites.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:23PM
Same reason that someone requested Django to do it. [djangoproject.com] An SJW threw a tantrum.
(Score: 1) by petecox on Saturday December 12 2015, @01:42AM
Am I missing something? Wasn't Django the African-American slave in Tarantino's western?
Sounds like the whole project needs a rename. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @05:12AM
Am I missing something?
Yes you are.
Wasn't Django the African-American slave in Tarantino's western?
Sounds like the whole project needs a rename. :)
Have you thought your "joke" through? Django was the hero of the movie. So by the logic of your criticism a master/slave relationship is heroic. You guys are doing the SJWs job for them...
(Score: 2) by Marand on Saturday December 12 2015, @04:39AM
Don't forget node.js removing references to suicide and debating removal of kill, seen here [github.com], and the same slave/master discussion hit drupal [drupal.org] as well. It's all gotten a bit ludicrous.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:28PM
It's also funny in light of using something called "Bro." If Mozilla was really so worried about feelings and appeasing the SJW crowd, shouldn't they be lobbying for that project to rename itself? Isn't that demeaning to women by implying that a female can't detect network intrusions?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:53PM
> Isn't that demeaning to women by implying that a female can't detect network intrusions?
It is no more implying that than referring to buildbot slaves implies freemen can't compile.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:57PM
Wow. No shit Sherlock? It's as if that was my entire point.
Great job, Captain Obvious. 👍
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @11:57PM
Really? So you were not making a dig at "the SJW crowd?"
Because it sure sounded like that to me and apparently at least one person with mod points thought so too.
So, which is it? An inartful flame of the people who complain about SJWs or a flame of SJWs?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @12:00AM
Aspergers Maaaaaaaan!!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @11:10PM
This post brought to you by Aspergers Man!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @12:17AM
Indeed, your post is full of ass.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday December 12 2015, @03:39PM
I've always been fascinated at how Asperger's and autism have become valid internet pejoratives. Would I be correct in presuming that the “SJWs” (expand that as social juggalo warriors from now on! don't ask, it involved plenty of b33r and Vanilla Ice playing Mark Twain—maybe we can blame Adam Sandler, which is always easy to do), in yet another moment of hypocrisy, have decided that sufferers of autism spectrum disorders are valid targets for mockery?
I demand social justice for those who suffer autism spectrum disorders!
(I also fail to see how any of the ACs in this comment cluster have demonstrated an autism spectrum disorder.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @07:14PM
> (I also fail to see how any of the ACs in this comment cluster have demonstrated an autism spectrum disorder.)
A common symptom of autism is an inability to recognize subtleties and nuance. Ironically the guy accusing me having aspergers demonstrated that exact characteristic by failing to see that I deliberately made a faulty analogy to illustrate the illogic of the original post. He thought I was just restating the OP's point when it was the opposite, as did the OP with his "no shit sherlock" post.
So this really a case of aspergers he who smelt it dealt it.