+1 to Naomi's interpretation. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:02 PM Naomi Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > master in "master/slave" (distributed computing) and master in the sense > of a "master record" (version control) are two independent senses of the > same word (senses 2.d and 10.b in the OED, respectively) > > cf. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/114751 < > https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/114751> > > I believe the issue is with the former and not the latter > > > On 9 Jun 2020, at 18:31, Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I decided to break this thread off from blacklist/whitelist, but someone > > brought this up on the Streams slack channel as we were discussing > that.... > > > > In removing "master/slave" terminology from tech... is anyone doing > > anything with the 'master' branches which exist in just about every > repo...? > >
