[Gluster-devel] Removing problematic language in geo-replication

[sankarshan]

Thank you for the update. Looking forward to the completion of this
activity in early 2021!

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 at 18:00, Ravishankar N <ravishankar at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Just a quick update:  all geo-rep related offensive words (as a matter
> of fact, even the non geo-rep ones) that can be removed from the code
> have been done so from the devel branch of the glusterfs repo. I thank
> everyone for their suggestions, debugging/testing help and code reviews.
>
> Since we have some soak time before the changes make it to the
> release-10 branch, I would encourage you to test the changes and report
> any issues that you might find. Please try out both new geo-rep set ups
> as well as upgrade scenarios (say from a supported release version to
> the latest devel branch).
>
> Also, for any new PRs that we are sending/ reviewing/merging, we need to
> keep in mind not to re-introduce any offensive words.
>
> Wishing you all a happy new year!
> Ravi
>
> On 22/07/20 5:06 pm, Aravinda VK wrote:
> > +1
> >
> >> On 22-Jul-2020, at 2:34 PM, Ravishankar N <ravishankar at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The gluster code base has some words and terminology (blacklist, whitelist, master, slave etc.) that can be considered hurtful/offensive to people in a global open source setting. Some of words can be fixed trivially but the Geo-replication code seems to be something that needs extensive rework. More so because we have these words being used in the CLI itself. Two questions that I had were:
> >>
> >> 1. Can I replace master:slave with primary:secondary everywhere in the code and the CLI? Are there any suggestions for more appropriate terminology?
> > Primary -> Secondary looks good.
> >
> >> 2. Is it okay to target the changes to a major release (release-9) and *not* provide backward compatibility for the CLI?
> > Functionality is not affected and CLI commands are compatible since all are positional arguments. Need changes in
> >
> > - Geo-rep status xml output
> > - Documentation
> > - CLI help
> > - Variables and other references in Code.
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Ravi
> >>
> >>
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