On 5/18/21 12:59 PM, Katia Rojas wrote:
Hello Rich,

Thank you for bringing this up to the group. Yes, it would be great if you
could share with us your experiences and progress. A blog post or a
dedicated page to centralize those efforts would be ideal so others with
the same questions could gain from your experience and work.

I would be glad to do that.

That said ... it's important to present this information in such a way that it is clear that we are saying "Here's what some of our projects are doing" rather than "Here's what you must do." Or, even worse, calling out projects that have not made this a priority as being somehow bad.

Not all of our projects are receptive to these changes, and however we might feel about it on this list, that's their decision to make, not one to be handed down from a President's working group. It's a delicate balance to strike between encouraging them to make a change, and making it a mandate from on high.


We could use confluence for this initiative. Let me find a good place in
confluence and I send you the links. Also, you can join us on one of our
D&I biweekly calls to discuss this topic, we always take meeting notes.

I was not aware of the biweekly calls. Can you provide more detail, please?


On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 17:31, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:

I noted in the Diversity board report the following comment with regard
to this topic:

"we don't have resources (people) to work on it."

I thought it worth mentioning that, with my work hat on, I have, in
fact, been working this issue, and have contacted a number of Apache
projects to discuss this topic, over the past few months.

In particular, I have talked with:

* Tomcat
* ActiveMQ
* Karaf
* Camel
* CXF
* Kafka
* ServiceMix

(Some of these were on-list, others were conversations with individuals.)

And I have become aware of other projects (like Cloudstack, below) that
are making these efforts also.

I have, of course, had mixed results. But it's important to remember
that while some changes are as easy as `sed "s/master/primary/g"`,
others require deprecation cycles, coordination with
upstream/downstream/dependency projects, and may take years. Starting
the conversation is the important thing.

I would be glad to write some things around these topics - indeed, I'm
already writing a bunch of things for https://inclusivenaming.org/ as
well as the internal Red Hat effort and my personal blog.

Setting replacement *policy* has proven unproductive, elsewhere, because
context matters. Telling everyone to replace "slave" with "replica" (or
whatever) won't work, because every project has different needs, and the
point of all of this is to choose the *right* word, not just do a blind
search/replace.


On 5/4/21 9:15 AM, Gabriel Beims Bräscher wrote:
Hello all @diversity,

We have been seeing movements on projects changing the use of some terms.

Some of these recent changes have been addressing the "master" branch and
also replacing "black/white-list" for options such as "allow/deny-list".
Recently we, at CloudStack, started to move towards the same direction;
however, there have been some discussions regarding which name to choose,
as well as if there is any position from the Apache Software Foundation
of
such changes.

I am raising this regarding the recent discussions on the Apache
CloudStack
project on renaming the master branch. You can find the mails linked
bellow:

1. [Discuss] thread:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd7df8d0fc813c47fda6640970c3fb7c065a08fff05c42f367ae8efbc%40%3Cdev.cloudstack.apache.org%3E
2. [Vote] thread:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7d7a1a7ea82bd2058e2f8634cffec75bcce585b591ee2a5709fd35d0%40%3Cdev.cloudstack.apache.org%3E

Is thre any guideline or plan to create one that recommends/guides
projects
on adopting inclusive words?
If not, how we could contribute in order to stablish one?

I would also like to know if this e-mail would fit on the ASF board
Mailing
list, I thought first on bringing this to the diversity@apache.

I appreciate any feedback.

Best Regards,


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