Given the racial charged nature of certain terms in today's world, I feel that action should be taken to change any such terms in all the ActiveMQ projects. Examples include 'master,' 'slave,' 'whitelist' and 'blacklist'.
It doesn't matter where these terms originated or how long they have been used in computer science. I have friends who feel that these terms are offensive and present a barrier to entry to some. So, I would prefer that they no longer be used anywhere in the ActiveMQ project. The simple fact is that changing these terms will not change the functionality of the features. Furthermore, compared to many other prominent projects throughout the open source community, ActiveMQ is late to the game on this point. So, I have created the following JIRA Issue to encapsulate this work. I have not assigned any components simply because this should span all sub-projects and documentation: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-7514 I have already begun work on this effort in a branch in my own fork of the activemq repo. This is to facilitate an eventual pull request to the ActiveMQ project. Anyone who would like to join me in this effort please reply to this message. -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );' http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/>
