[Info-vax] Key LLVM developer resigns

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-05, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/18 8:44 AM, MG wrote:
>> 
>> Why would they?  LLVM has demonstrated that they don't
>> put development of LLVM first 
>
> Software doesn't develop itself; it needs people. As far as I can see,
> the LLVM project have taken reasonable steps to make the project a nice
> place to work for the people involved, including some efforts to
> actively recruit new people from underrepresented groups. That's
> actually a very good plan to "put development of LLVM first" long-term.
>
> The code of conduct to which the quitter objects is here:
>
><https://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/docs/CodeOfConduct.html>
>

If that's all there was to it, I wouldn't be nervous because what
is on that page (as at 7-Mar-2018) is a reasonably written set of
guidelines if they are administered by grown up people who use
normal judgements about what is right and what is wrong.

Unfortunately, reading around, there appears to be some serious
concern that this might just be the entry point for some rather
unexpected behaviour and there are indeed a good number of examples
if you go looking.

For example, here is the GitHub Code of Conduct:

https://blog.github.com/2015-07-20-adopting-the-open-code-of-conduct/

and the CoC mentioned is available here:

http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/

which includes a rather charming section that begins with:

|Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people's safety
|over privileged people's comfort.

After Googling the terms in that section to try and understand what
on earth it is saying, what that appears to be saying is that if you
are part of the mainstream culture then you don't have any rights to
complain about attacks against what you say, even when the attacks
are unjustified.

There is also a movement to remove Master/Slave from the technical
terminology because it is considered to be racist/oppressive/etc:

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2275877
https://github.com/rust-lang-deprecated/rust-buildbot/issues/2

Oh, and it appears you can't use "hugs" as an innocent expression of
sympathy any more because it has now become oppressive to do so:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/21/freebsd_code_of_conduct_controversy/

Simon.

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