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LFN Projects to implement suggestions/guidance as appropriate for their projects
Overall Plan
- 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
LFN Mailing List
inclusive-lang-wg@lists.lfnetworking.org
Action items
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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.
- IETF is working on Best Current Practice document. Here is version 4: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-04.html
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
Linux Kernal: Linux kernal community guidelines: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/4/229
CNCF:
- Racially charged terminology: A Path Forward: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTsAX1FL8lglgGZM-o8AN8bgqWIYIx6F5_ZGDBVYx9U/edit
- CNCF Naming Working Group: Using more Inclusive language brainstorm:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bnPvb6oE07Wg9rb7kBXcpHe6j85bbyltdc0h0_gil88/edit#
Table of reference replacement terms from links above and other sources
| Project/Company | Term Option | Term Option | Term Option | Comments |
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| DPDK.org | Master->Primary | Slave->Secondary | Blacklist→Blocklist Whitelist->Allowlist | |
| Drupal | Master->Primary | Slave->Replica | ||
| Django | Master->Leader | Slave->Follower | ||
| Python | Master->Parent | Slave→worker, helpers | ||
| Redis | Master->Primary | Slave->Replica | ||
| Microsoft | Master→Primary, Principal, Controller | Slave→ Replica, Secondary, Agent | ||
| Master->Primary | Slave→ Replica | |||
| GitHub | Master->Main | |||
| Red Hat | Master->Main | Whitelist→ Allowlist Blacklist→ Blocklist | ||
| Intel | Master→Primary, Leader, Orchestrator, Host, Initiator | Slave→ Follower, Worker, Target, Responder | Whitelist→ Safelist, PassList Blacklist→ Blocklist | |
| IETF | Master→Primary, Leader, Active, Parent, Coordinator | Slave→ Secondary, Follower, Standby, Replica, Helper, Worker | ||
| Master→ Leader, Primary | Slave→ Follower, Replica, Standby | Whitelist→ Allowlist Blacklist→ Denylist | ||
Team
(to be confirmed)
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