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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: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday May 06 2018, @10:58PM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Sunday May 06 2018, @10:58PM (#676466) Homepage Journal

    That would be a low-quality comment, ripe for editing, unless that German text actually does have some sensible relationship with the code that was allegedly explained by the comment.

    Perhaps it should even be so edited before a commit to the main development branch.

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Monday May 07 2018, @12:50AM

    by driverless (4770) on Monday May 07 2018, @12:50AM (#676507)

    It has no relationship whatsoever to the code, it's a random quote from a well-known 1930s German political leader, meant to illustrate how difficult it was to just drop "hateful comments insulting everyone from *some gender* or *some race*" into the middle of a code commit. As you point out, it's a low-quality comment that would be removed because it's low-quality, regardless of whether it insults some race or gender. No need to have a special code of conduct to catch it, just the normal submission editing process would remove it.