Not a comprehensive list. I am currently going after the low-hanging fruit:
* master * slave * blacklist * whitelist I have not yet considered anything beyond these words yet. If and as we find additional words, we should add them to the JIRA issue. Bruce On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 4:54 PM Clebert Suconic <clebert.suco...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- 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/>
