I'm working on blacklist/whitelist in Cloudsstack (nearly there); But 
master/slave is a tough one because we're orchestrating components that 
themselves use master/slave terminology...


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas <[email protected]> 
Sent: 07 June 2020 19:37
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Blacklist/whitelist

On 06/06/2020 22:58, Rich Bowen wrote:
> I imagine it is a significantly larger challenge there. If a project 
> that prominently relies on these types of lists can do it we all can.

Thanks for the nudge Rich.

I didn't recall seeing those terms in the Tomcat codebase but your mail 
prompted me to go and look and I did find an instance in the docs that I have 
now changed.

Mark



> Rich
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 16:56 Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The spamassassin project has been working towards this same goal for 
>> a few months now too.
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 16:29 Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I just made a few commits which removed all occurrences of "blacklist"
>> from
>>> the Apache httpd documentation. It took just a few minutes.
>>>
>>> I encourage each of you to take a few minutes to do the same for 
>>> your project(s).
>>>
>>> Please note that I have zero interest in debating whether this is
>> necessary
>>> or beneficial or offensive or whatever. Instead ask yourself this
>> question:
>>>
>>> If I can make a tiny change to my software which makes JUST ONE 
>>> black contributor feel more welcome and has no negative impact on 
>>> the functionality, why wouldn't I?
>>>
>>> More thoughts on word choice here:
>>> https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-guide-to-nomenclature-selection
>>> /
>>>
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>
> 


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