Name: Anonymous 2018-05-08 1:36
Have you ever wondered why the recent products of a certain very large software company are horribly buggy?
Policies introduced to promote a more "diversive and inclusive environment", and metrics tracking the number of lines of code contributed by "underrepresented and underprivileged minorities", have created an effort to increase "diversity" in the codebase. Commits from those identified to increase diversity are "fast-tracked" into the main release branch of the product with a minimum of review, and fixing bugs which are identified to originate from "diversity commits" by those who aren't in that group are strongly discouraged from changing any of that code, since it would reduce the overall diversity metric. There's no official policy against it, but managers are asking employees to leave such code in and work around it instead. Major security issues originating from these commits have made it all the way to release, because the dipshits who wrote the code were too busy "increasing diversity" by adding more shitty feature-code to fix them, and everyone else was also asked to ignore them and work on other things too.
Policies introduced to promote a more "diversive and inclusive environment", and metrics tracking the number of lines of code contributed by "underrepresented and underprivileged minorities", have created an effort to increase "diversity" in the codebase. Commits from those identified to increase diversity are "fast-tracked" into the main release branch of the product with a minimum of review, and fixing bugs which are identified to originate from "diversity commits" by those who aren't in that group are strongly discouraged from changing any of that code, since it would reduce the overall diversity metric. There's no official policy against it, but managers are asking employees to leave such code in and work around it instead. Major security issues originating from these commits have made it all the way to release, because the dipshits who wrote the code were too busy "increasing diversity" by adding more shitty feature-code to fix them, and everyone else was also asked to ignore them and work on other things too.