Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 13:16, Ernestas Kulik <ernestask gnome org> 
wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 21:08 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote:
> >  In the end, as the experience Python has had clearly shows, we will
> >  gain much, much more by being inclusive than we lose by entertaining
> >  a small minority who would rather we aren't.
>
> Excuse me if I missed this, but can you elaborate on what has clearly
> been shown?

After deliberately setting out to make the project more inclusive, 
Python has reversed a five-year-long trend of declining number of core 
devs and it has been increasing ever since. They have for example, in 
the last three years gone from having 0 to 4 women who are core devs.

They have also been successful in getting other projects to use more 
inclusive language. For example, MongoDB initially refused to stop 
using the term "master", but then relented after Python did so. GNOME 
could be in a similar position of leadership here, since it's pretty 
clear /someone/ needs to be the first to do the right thing to get 
others moving as well.

//Mike

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