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One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over Code of Conduct, Outreach Program (phoronix.com)
Rafael Avila de Espindola is the fifth most active contributor to LLVM with more than 4,300 commits since 2006, but now he has decided to part ways with the project. From a report: Rafael posted a rather lengthy mailing list message to fellow LLVM developers today entitled I am leaving llvm. He says the reason for abandoning LLVM development after 12 years is due to changes in the community. In particular, the "social injustice" brought on the organization's new LLVM Code of Conduct and its decision to participate in this year's Outreachy program to encourage women and other minority groups to get involved with free software development. "I am definitely sad to lose Rafael from the LLVM project, but it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community. I applaud Rafael for standing by his personal principles, this must have been a hard decision," Chris Lattner, tweeted Thursday.
Yes, compound sentences are amazing things. I am glad you have made up some rules to exclude people who don't like your rules. The irony is delicious.
I'm finding it hard to figure out what exactly he doesn't like. This is the code of conduct:
be friendly and patient,
I think it's very obvious the issues with this "code" (1) Be friendly and patient is absolutely ridiculous ---
Don't expect people to pretend to be friendly and patient in every situation.
Friendliness and patience are not always warranted or can become reasonably exhausted.
be welcoming, be considerate,
Another example of trying to dictate that project members have a specific happy-go-lucky personality.
This bullshit doesn't belong in the code of conduct of a project.
As it's gone way beyond setting "reasonable boundaries" and right into territory of trying to dictate someone's idea
of what manners should be.
be respectful,
be careful in the words that you choose and be kind to others, and
when we disagree, try to understand why.,
This is mostly just a repetition of the above.
> Maybe if your tits were brains
Standard programmers AKA obese white men, insult each other this way all the time. Why treat women differently?
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.