Hello SPICE community, following Chris Wright (Red Hat CTO) blog post on "Making open source more inclusive by eradicating problematic language" [1], I would like to suggest that we have a look at SPICE source code to find out if/where such language is used and how to remove it.
To illustrate the motivations of this move, consider the phrase "the final solution". I am quite sure you would agree that these words cannot be used inside a project. You would agree because the WWII events are still in minds and not so ancient yet. Git "master", or the "master/slave" pattern may not trigger similar thoughts if your ancestors didn't suffer slavery; "whitelist/blacklist" neither, if the color of your skin doesn't get you into trouble (white=allow, black=deny). Overall, I would advise, when thinking about these questions, not to forget on which side your history/country/skin color/sexual orientation sits you. If it's the oppressor side, you're not at the right place to say it's not relevant. --- I had a quick `grep` look at SPICE code base, searching for `blacklist/whitelist/slave` and I could only find very few occurrences of these words, which is nice. Can you find other problem words? `master` is used for git default's branch, but not much elsewhere. Let's discuss if we could get rid of this one, for instance changing it to `main` (just a suggestion). I don't think that it can break that many things (only the CI comes to my mind, where the `master` branch may be treated differently) as git name default branch's name is often omitted in the usual workflows. Please share your thoughts about this best regards, Kevin 1: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language
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