Stefan Mileschin

Will never agree to be nice and polite

A developer publicly quit a large and popular open source project after he refused to agree to be nice to his fellow developers and was hacked off that an intern programme was only open to LGBTQ, African Americans, Hispanic and Native Americans.

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project he was involved with came up with a code of conduct where they would not be rude to each other. That code of conduct basically says that the group is open to people of all walks of life and expects its members to be courteous.

If you did not sign the code of conduct you could not go to the group's big conference. Rafael Avila de Espindola had some status in the group having been there for more than a decade, but he refused to sign.

Espindola said he was unhappy that the project had decided to accept an intern from a group called Outreachy. Outreachy offers paid internships to women, folks in the LGBTQ community, and those who are African-American, Hispanic/Latin, or from of any of the indigenous American ancestries.

In other words, these internships are only for people in underrepresented gender and racial groups in the programming/open-source worlds and are not open to white men or Asians/South Asians. White men and Asian men are the two groups that are best represented in tech, according to diversity reports.

https://fudzilla.com/news/46229-deve...-to-each-other