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Wanna remain anon commented on COUCHDB-2248:
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Are we seriously going to let politics affect functionality? Just because a few
overly sensitive people think that someone might get offended a tiny bit by the
terminology used we have to change it all because "God forbid anyone ever get
offended". If you go out of your way to make everything so politically correct
that you think it's okay to replace a well known standard with something
obscure just in case anyone gets offended, you are just plain wrong. If you get
offended by this grow up. The world isn't a nice place, it has no obligation to
be. While unrighteous, prejudiced discrimination is something we should try our
best to get rid of. You don't make any progress by going out of your way to
alter very minor potential 'triggers' while disrupting the workflow of huge
projects. I'm a guy who hears racist jokes about his race regularly, and while
a lot of them are offensive, and some of them may not even be funny, you don't
see me crying about things like this. When something obviously has no negative
connotation, you can't just fill in the blanks and say that it should be
changed. This is only going to fuel the cause of everyone who does support
these bad things since now they'll just see movements seeking equality as a
bunch of whiners. By making a huge fuss about something as minor as this you
basically devalue all the actual problems.
> Replace "master" and "slave" terminology
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> Key: COUCHDB-2248
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2248
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Noah Slater
> Priority: Trivial
>
> Inspired by the comments on this PR:
> https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692
> Summary is: `master` and `slave` are racially charged terms, and it would be
> good to avoid them. Django have gone for `primary` and `replica`. But we also
> have to deal with what we now call multi-master setups. I propose "peer to
> peer" as a replacement, or just "peer" if you're describing one node.
> As far as I can tell, the primary work here is the docs. The wiki and any
> supporting material can be updated after.
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