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LFN Projects to implement suggestions/guidance as appropriate for their projects
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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
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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’”
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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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