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LFN Projects to implement suggestions/guidance as appropriate for their projects
Tasks
- gather additional guidelines from LF and relevant standards groups on their terminology list
- finalize a terminology list with recommended replacements
- suggest scope & processes to implement
Background Information Gathered
(thanks Trevor Cooper )
Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/11/python_purges_master_and_slave_in_political_pogrom/
Redis replaces master/slave language - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/13/redis_master_slave/
Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), creator of Redis, ran an on-line Twitter poll of his followers, and found that 53% out of 6242 participants wanted to replace master-slave language; with 19% wanting to keep it and 28% that didn’t care. https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1038094104129937408
Microsoft Style Guide advises alternatives to master/slave - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/a-z-word-list-term-collections/m/master-slave-master-subordinate
Google told Employees to Delete Politically Incorrect Language From Code - https://reason.com/2019/07/11/google-code-pc-master-slave-respectful/
Los Angeles, CA asked manufactures, suppliers & contractors to stop using master/slave terminology, calling it unacceptable & offensive - http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/index.html
Drupal - https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2275877
Django - https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692 . Lots of discussion on this thread from those on both sides of the issue.
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) - https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html . Proposal in process to replace master/slave and blacklist/whitelist language.
GitHub – “Microsoft's Github is removing coding terms like 'master' and 'slave’”
Washington Post – “There’s an industry that talks daily about ‘masters’ and ‘slaves.’ It needs to stop.”
ZDNET (7/11/20) – “Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'blacklist' and 'slave’”
Red Hat blog from CTO (and LFN board member) Chris Wright https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language
ODPI open source project discussion: https://github.com/odpi/egeria/issues/3486
Team
(to be confirmed)
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