<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>1. Can I replace master:slave with primary:secondary everywhere in the <br>code and the CLI? Are there any suggestions for more appropriate <br>terminology?<br><div><br></div><div>>> Other options could be - Leader : follower<br></div><div><br></div>2. Is it okay to target the changes to a major release (release-9) and <br>*not* provide backward compatibility for the CLI?<br><div><br></div><div>>> I hope so as it is not impacting functionality.<br><br></div><div>----<br></div><div>Ashish</div></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Ravishankar N" <ravishankar@redhat.com><br><b>To: </b>"Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@gluster.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, July 22, 2020 2:34:01 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Gluster-devel] Removing problematic language in geo-replication<br><div><br></div>Hi,<br><div><br></div>The gluster code base has some words and terminology (blacklist, <br>whitelist, master, slave etc.) that can be considered hurtful/offensive <br>to people in a global open source setting. Some of words can be fixed <br>trivially but the Geo-replication code seems to be something that needs <br>extensive rework. More so because we have these words being used in the <br>CLI itself. Two questions that I had were:<br><div><br></div>1. Can I replace master:slave with primary:secondary everywhere in the <br>code and the CLI? Are there any suggestions for more appropriate <br>terminology?</div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br><div><br></div>2. Is it okay to target the changes to a major release (release-9) and <br>*not* provide backward compatibility for the CLI?<br><div><br></div>Thanks,<br><div><br></div>Ravi<br><div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br><div><br></div>Community Meeting Calendar:<br><div><br></div>Schedule -<br>Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 14:30 IST / 09:00 UTC<br>Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div><br>Gluster-devel mailing list<br>Gluster-devel@gluster.org<br>https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel<br><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>