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

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 21:52, Michael Gratton <mike vee net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 12:38, Michael Gratton <mike vee net> wrote:
> > >  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.
> >
> > That's misrepresenting it *AGAIN*. Both stopped using master along
> > with slave. The main developer branch is still called master in both
> > projects.


In any case, if you would care to actually read the diffs on the Python 
change, you'll see that it covered a number of instances of using 
another word for "master" when "slave" wasn't involved. It's not the 
pair of terms that is problematic, it's either term in isolation that 
is.

Further, this proposal is actually covers changing fewer terms than 
Python did, and hence is more conservative in that respect.

Please, actually read it: <https://bugs.python.org/issue34605>

//Mike

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