On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 5:43 PM Daniel Rodrigues Lima < danielrodrigues...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals, > > I think the time has come for the PHP internals to discuss the use of > master/slave and blacklist terminologies. > As everyone can see, we are going through times of change in the world, > see #blackLivesMatter for example. > Therefore, I propose that we discuss the non-use of terms master/slave, > because the use of this can allude to the slavery and negative feelings > about black people. > If you would like to rename user-visible symbols, please create an RFC, which details what exactly will be renamed, analyzes what the backward compatibility impact will be and provides a sensible migration path and timeline. If I may be honest, I find it somewhat disrespectful that you started this thread without investing any effort from your side. A simple "grep backlist" and "grep master" on the PHP codebase would have gone a long way towards identifying what can/should be changed. Regards, Nikita
