Do we have a list for terms considered offensive ?
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:57 PM Bruce Snyder <bruce.sny...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/> > -- Clebert Suconic
