ashb opened a new pull request #9174: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/9174
It's fairly common to say whitelisting and blacklisting to describe desirable and undesirable things in cyber security. However just because it is common doesn't mean it's right. However, there's an issue with the terminology. It only makes sense if you equate white with 'good, permitted, safe' and black with 'bad, dangerous, forbidden'. There are some obvious problems with this. You may not see why this matters. If you're not adversely affected by racial stereotyping yourself, then please count yourself lucky. For some of your friends and colleagues (and potential future colleagues), this really is a change worth making. From now on, we will use 'allow list' and 'deny list' in place of 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' wherever possible. Which, in fact, is clearer and less ambiguous. So as well as being more inclusive of all, this is a net benefit to our understandability. (Words mostly borrowed from <https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/terminology-its-not-black-and-white>) --- Make sure to mark the boxes below before creating PR: [x] - [x] Description above provides context of the change - [x] Unit tests coverage for changes (not needed for documentation changes) - [x] Target Github ISSUE in description if exists - [x] Commits follow "[How to write a good git commit message](http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/)" - [x] Relevant documentation is updated including usage instructions. - [x] I will engage committers as explained in [Contribution Workflow Example](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#contribution-workflow-example). --- In case of fundamental code change, Airflow Improvement Proposal ([AIP](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Airflow+Improvements+Proposals)) is needed. In case of a new dependency, check compliance with the [ASF 3rd Party License Policy](https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x). In case of backwards incompatible changes please leave a note in [UPDATING.md](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/master/UPDATING.md). Read the [Pull Request Guidelines](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#pull-request-guidelines) for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
