Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-17 Thread Jakob Givoni
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 6:49 PM Michael Cordover wrote: > > The black in black hole and the white in whitespace are descriptions of the > actual colors of these things. > There's no value judgement there. > Blacklist, on the other hand, is explicitly making a judgement that things on > that list

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-16 Thread Chuck Adams
suing > this discussion, and I should not even write an RFC for that. > > -- > Cheers, > > Daniel Rodrigues > > https://twitter.com/geekcom2 > ________________________ > De: Larry Garfield > Enviado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 17:21 > Para: php

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-16 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:06:17AM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote: > Hi the peanut gallery... > > I can't say that blacklist/whitelist -> something else is a meaningless > change.  The challenge we as technologists (nevermind our color) have is > that we don't really have good guidance from psychologists

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-16 Thread Lynn
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:09 AM Peter Bowyer wrote: > > So if we want to do this, let's: > > 1. Ask the black community what they find offensive in PHP > 2. Listen > 3. Prioritise the responses and judge which are feasible to act on > 4. Act > This points out the obvious, people are stuck in th

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi the peanut gallery... I can't say that blacklist/whitelist -> something else is a meaningless change.  The challenge we as technologists (nevermind our color) have is that we don't really have good guidance from psychologists and sociologists (I know, I tried chasing down those links last year

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-16 Thread Peter Bowyer
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 20:07, Thomas Nunninger wrote: > Before discussing technical aspects about what changes would be required > and what are the consequences, I'd like to point out some other aspect: > > I'm a white guy. I can't tell women how they should feel about male > wordings, statements

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
Thanks Kalle. -- Cheers, Daniel Rodrigues. geek...@php.net https://twitter.com/geekcom2 De: Kalle Sommer Nielsen Enviado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 21:43 Para: Daniel Rodrigues Lima Cc: PHP Internals Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Den tir. 16. jun. 2020 kl. 03.30 skrev Daniel Rodrigues Lima : > > How is it in the process of creating an RFC... > > "1. Email internals@lists.php.net to measure reaction to your intended > proposal. " That is the thing, do you intend to provide no upgrade path for your proposal? You don't menti

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Peter Stalman
Hi Internals, The problem with proposal and arguments about these "fixes" is that it's usually white people arguing about what is and what isn't offensive to black people. And isn't that the most racist thing about this: white people deciding for black people? No, it doesn't make you a better pe

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
ira, 15 de junho de 2020 21:23 Para: Daniel Rodrigues Lima Cc: Deleu ; Lynn ; PHP Internals Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace. Den tir. 16. jun. 2020 kl. 03.09 skrev Daniel Rodrigues Lima : > > I fully understand the con

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Den tir. 16. jun. 2020 kl. 03.09 skrev Daniel Rodrigues Lima : > > I fully understand the consequences of the discussion we are having here. > Sorry, but it is not nice to assume things about any PHP member. I didn't > "throw a ball in the air at random", and I'm not scared by the negative > res

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
negative way. -- Cheers, Daniel Rodrigues. geek...@php.net https://twitter.com/geekcom2 De: Kalle Sommer Nielsen Enviado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 20:54 Para: Daniel Rodrigues Lima Cc: Deleu ; Lynn ; PHP internals Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Den tir. 16. jun. 2020 kl. 02.39 skrev Daniel Rodrigues Lima : > > The simple fact that we don't know how to deal with this type of discussion > can say a lot about of our community. > Anyway when I started this discussion I didn't imagine that I would receive > so many negative feedbacks. I am

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Reinis Rozitis
> Last, regarding neutrality. This proposal is literally aimed at adopting > more- > neutral language. It's not a partisan move to say that harmful language > should be avoided. The problem (imo) is projecting/tying relations and social interactions (past and present) between people onto machi

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
m/geekcom2 De: Kalle Sommer Nielsen Enviado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 20:23 Para: Deleu Cc: Lynn ; PHP internals Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace. Den tir. 16. jun. 2020 kl. 02.12 s

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Den tir. 16. jun. 2020 kl. 02.12 skrev Deleu : > > > I am sorry but I do not think you understand the scale of which the > > PHP project is at. > > I'm sorry but you did not get my point. As mentioned above theres 170 places > mentioning the term blacklist. When I said "the argument of BC without

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Deleu
> I am sorry but I do not think you understand the scale of which the > PHP project is at. I'm sorry but you did not get my point. As mentioned above theres 170 places mentioning the term blacklist. When I said "the argument of BC without knowing the scope" I meant to express that perhaps 1, 10 or

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi Den tir. 16. jun. 2020 kl. 00.41 skrev Deleu : > People arguing BC breaks without even knowing the scope of the change > clearly show biased. I am sorry but I do not think you understand the scale of which the PHP project is at. Any change we make to the language has consequences for hundreds

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > Last, regarding neutrality. This proposal is literally aimed at adopting > more-neutral language. It's not a partisan move to say that harmful > language should be avoided. It is a decidedly political claim that long-time industry standard term with established neutral meaning is suddenly

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Sara Golemon
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 4:41 PM Deleu wrote: > As white men, we're being dismissive, insensitive and strongly suggesting > we don't want change. While people may not feel offended by any of these > terms being discussed, this thread alone already serves as reason for > people to feel like there's

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
De: Pedro Magalhães Enviado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 18:50 Para: Deleu Cc: Lynn ; PHP internals Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace. On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:41 PM Deleu wrote: > People arguing BC breaks with

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Pedro Magalhães
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:41 PM Deleu wrote: > People arguing BC breaks without even knowing the scope of the change > clearly show biased. > Bold assumption there. There is at least one PR suggesting similar changes and you can gauge the amount of BC based on it. Unless "blacklist" is not supp

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Deleu
+1. While I agree that the status of the php project makes the discussion much more productive by having an actionable process in place, I do sympathize with the original author in the thread. You can see that with a simple and small action that is highlighted in the RFC guide as step 1 (gauge peo

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Larry Garfield
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Daniel Rodrigues Lima wrote: > Hi Larry, > > I appreciate your answer, thank you, but i would like to clarify some points: > > 1. I found 170 occurrences of the term blacklist - grep -rni > "blacklist" php-src/, i'm working to understand the impact of changes; >

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
for that. -- Cheers, Daniel Rodrigues https://twitter.com/geekcom2 De: Larry Garfield Enviado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 17:21 Para: php internals Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace. On Mon,

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Larry Garfield
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, at 2:11 PM, G. P. B. wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 20:05, Lynn wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:46 PM Alain D D Williams > > wrote: > > > > > It is very easy to take offence when none is meant at all. One needs to > > > look at intent. > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Thomas Nunninger
Hi, Am 15.06.20 um 21:14 schrieb Stanislav Malyshev: Hi! I was surprised by the many negative responses: Partly just discussing the term "blacklist" that is perhaps not the main issue. Or telling people how they should feel and understand words. Nobody tells you how to feel. But when you cla

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > I was surprised by the many negative responses: Partly just discussing > the term "blacklist" that is perhaps not the main issue. Or telling > people how they should feel and understand words. Nobody tells you how to feel. But when you claim your supposed feelings are the reason to censor o

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread G. P. B.
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 20:05, Lynn wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:46 PM Alain D D Williams > wrote: > > > It is very easy to take offence when none is meant at all. One needs to > > look at intent. > > > > Hi, > > I'm going to disagree here. It's not about intent, it's about impact. You > ca

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Thomas Nunninger
Hi, I was surprised by the many negative responses: Partly just discussing the term "blacklist" that is perhaps not the main issue. Or telling people how they should feel and understand words. Personally, I don't have any issues with "blacklist" - as I do not see any historical reason for th

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
iado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 15:18 Para: Daniel Rodrigues Lima Cc: PHP Internals Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace. Oh man, not this again, not here. Nothing intelligent ever comes out of this. Looks like most instanc

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Chuck Adams
Oh man, not this again, not here. Nothing intelligent ever comes out of this. Looks like most instances in the PHP source refer to mysql constants, which means the ball would be in mysql's court. Reality is you'd still need the aliases that contain the offending word. The other is in ext/standa

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Lynn
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:46 PM Alain D D Williams wrote: > It is very easy to take offence when none is meant at all. One needs to > look at intent. > Hi, I'm going to disagree here. It's not about intent, it's about impact. You can have the best intentions with the worst results. When I read

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:00:22AM -0700, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > 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 > > #blackLivesMatte

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > It is now highly likely that M$ will force changes to these in github > which is probably part of what has prompted the thread. Once 'new If and when this will happen, we'll see the official message from Microsoft/Github and decide how to act. There's no point in discussing such hypothetica

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
On 15/06/2020 18:00, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: While your quest for more just and fair world is noble and laudable, I think your energies are misplaced in this case. Terms like "blacklist" are established industry terms (and are used also outside the industry - It is now highly likely that M$ w

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Ben Ramsey
> On Jun 15, 2020, at 12:10, Daniel Rodrigues Lima > wrote: > > Hi Nikita, > > Thanks for suggestions, I didn't mean to be disrespectful. > Create an RFC is exactly the next step, but first I needed to understand if > there was support for that. > > How is it in the process of creating an RFC

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace. On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 5:43 PM Daniel Rodrigues Lima mailto:danielrodrigues...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hi internals, I think the time has come for the PHP internals to discuss the use of master/slave and

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > 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. While your quest for more just and fair world is noble and lauda

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Stephen Reay
> On 15 Jun 2020, at 22:43, Daniel Rodrigues Lima > 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 > #blackLivesMatte

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Nikita Popov
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 wo

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Michael Cordover
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, at 12:36, Reinis Rozitis wrote: > > The word "master" has 18 meanings in English, according to > > https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/master - do you propose to outlaw those > > 17 of them that have nothing to do with slavery, too? What about master's > > degree, for example? >

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > The moment we change blacklist to blocklist, we are essentially > agreeing to the fact that we should censor words because they contain > a color in its name, something that is totally unrelated to any human > race. Are we also gonna change the internal values of the Garbage > Collector for

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Reinis Rozitis
> The word "master" has 18 meanings in English, according to > https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/master - do you propose to outlaw those > 17 of them that have nothing to do with slavery, too? What about master's > degree, for example? > I wonder what will astronomers do with 'black hole' .. p.s

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Den man. 15. jun. 2020 kl. 19.15 skrev Daniel Rodrigues Lima : > > Hi Kalle, > > I understand your position. > > But i believe that changing retrograde terminologies that refer to bad > feelings, > doesn't put us anywhere politically. It exactly puts us in a political area, because the moment we

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Max Semenik
пн, 15 июн. 2020 г., 19:15 Daniel Rodrigues Lima < danielrodrigues...@hotmail.com>: > But i believe that changing retrograde terminologies that refer to bad > feelings, > doesn't put us anywhere politically. > > > It's not about sides, it's about people, and our community is made up of > people. >

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread David Rodrigues
t; Enviado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 12:58 > Para: Daniel Rodrigues Lima > Cc: PHP Internals > Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and > blacklist, proposal to replace. > > Hi > > Den man. 15. jun. 2020 kl. 18.43 skrev Daniel Rodrigues Li

RE: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
.@php.net https://twitter.com/geekcom2 De: Kalle Sommer Nielsen Enviado: segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2020 12:58 Para: Daniel Rodrigues Lima Cc: PHP Internals Assunto: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace. Hi D

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi Den man. 15. jun. 2020 kl. 18.43 skrev Daniel Rodrigues Lima : > > 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 > #blackLivesMat

[PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Daniel Rodrigues Lima
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 maste