<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 23:16, David Blaikie <<a href="mailto:dblaikie@gmail.com">dblaikie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I don't think diversity necessarily relates to this aspect of managerial structure. Unless we're talking about the less benevolent dictatorships where the authority figures both provide structure, but also set some fairly negative tones for how people should relate. Those things aren't necessarily connected though, and I don't see signs that's the kind of leadership we have or are moving towards in the LLVM community. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, that's not at all what I meant.</div><div><br></div><div>LLVM attract all kinds of people, not just from different backgrounds and minorities, but also different cultures. And by culture I mean a lot of things.</div><div><br></div><div>We have different countries and continents; academia, enterprise and government; students, professionals, directors; enthusiasts or people just trying to make some money; open and closed source source projects; embedded into or built as a library or being used by a dependency. I myself have belonged to many of those groups over the years.</div><div><br></div><div>In my opinion, that variety in how we all use and rely on LLVM is key to its success, but it's also what makes it hard to drive larger changes that affect the least amount of people.</div><div><br></div><div>Even foundations and working groups can't be representative of all people and most of the time we don't even know who "the people" are until we try to change something and it breaks for them.</div><div><br></div><div>This is why long consensus "works" for us, because eventually by then, most people would have seen it and voiced their opinions. But it's slow and painful.</div><div><br></div><div>I personally prefer that pain, then the pain of seeing each new decision alienating a small, but substantial, part of the community, and making the project less and less palatable to new contributors from different cultures.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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