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

Sanju Rakonde srakonde at redhat.com
Wed Jul 22 09:52:57 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jul 22, 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 to me.

>
> 2. Is it okay to target the changes to a major release (release-9) and
> *not* provide backward compatibility for the CLI?
>
This should be fine, as it is glusterd which passes the request to the
peers. This will not cause any issue in the heterogenous cluster as well.


> Thanks,
>
> Ravi
>
>
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Thanks,
Sanju
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