Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words(theregister.co.uk)

5 points by vld 6 years ago | 2 comments

rvz 6 years ago |

The Chromium source has a library in the blink engine that is abbreviated as WTF::* which in this context is the Web Template Framework, which facilitate with custom data-structures to support the blink engine over some of the standard library offerings (As found in the C++ std lib). [0][1]

> I don't expect Chrome teams to necessarily make these bugs a priority (we haven't seen this pose a problem for us in practice as far as I know), but if cleaning this up is valuable for Microsoft (or any another Chromium contributor) then we should have no trouble getting the necessary code reviews.

This is absolutely one of the most ridiculous and perhaps a winner for the silliest tickets in Chromium I have ever seen. All for the sake of political-correctness and scanning naughty words for 'diversity and inclusion'. The WTF classes are a foundational component in Chromium which has lasted for years and to accept a large refactor for this reason is essentially going against the laws of logic and critical thinking.

It is only when Microsoft that gets involved that they (Chromium Team) will take a look at something which is quite frankly impractical to carry out and is also frivolous to even consider. Any other outside contributor would be shown the door if they dared to show a 'diversity and inclusion' case for 'trigger words' from those who are open to be offended easily. Doing such a purge will cause breakages that are just not worth it.

If I were the Chromium team, I would just close this frivolous issue no matter who it is, even if it is anyone from Microsoft.

[0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/62.0.31...

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/refs/head...

pkilgore 6 years ago |

There's something that warms my heart about Chromium using "wtf" as a "protocol message".

The chromium bug report is here, for the curious: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=981129

[later...] This is all I got for searching "wtf" in the source, it looks like an abbreviation for something longer, would love it if someone could fill us in on the full name (or the story): https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=%22wtf%22&sq=package:chrom...