+1 for active/passive - very often is used in conversation

Regards
Iliya Grushevskiy




> 6 мая 2022 г., в 09:26, Tetreault, Lucas <tetlu...@amazon.com.INVALID> 
> написал(а):
> 
> Hey folks,
> 
> I don’t know if I’m actually allowed to call for a vote given I’m not a 
> committer/PMC member but Michael André Pearce made it clear on Slack that 
> this was the only way to move this discussion forward and come to a final 
> conclusion on the issue so here goes nothing. If I’m not supposed to call for 
> a vote, perhaps someone could “sponsor” this request :)
> 
> 
> A tweet [1] from a few days ago raised the issue of non-inclusive terminology 
> in the AWS docs related to ActiveMQ [2] and suggested that we should replace 
> “masterslave” with a more inclusive name for the network connector transport. 
> Replacing master/slave nomenclature in ActiveMQ was raised as a Jira issue in 
> July 2020 [3] and again on the mailing list in November 2020 [7]. There was 
> some initial work to rename the git branch from master to main, some attempts 
> at making some changes to the code 
> (https://github.com/apache/activemq/pull/679, 
> https://github.com/apache/activemq/pull/714, 
> https://github.com/apache/activemq/pull/788) and Matt Pavlovich drafted a 
> thorough proposal on the mailing list [6], however we have not been able to 
> come to an agreement on nomenclature so these efforts seem to have stalled 
> out.
> 
> 
> 
> If we are able to come to an agreement on nomenclature, we can move forward 
> with removing more non-inclusive terminology on the website (I will follow up 
> with some PRs to the website), in discussions with the community and of 
> course in the codebase. This will remove barriers to adoption and make 
> ActiveMQ a more approachable and inclusive project for everyone! Other Apache 
> projects such as Solr and Kafka have moved from master/slave to 
> leader/follower. Leader/follower is also recommended by the IETF [4] and 
> inclusivenaming.org [5] which is supported by companies such as Cisco, Intel, 
> and RedHat. At AWS, we have used active/standby to describe HA deployments, 
> however from previous discussions it's clear that active/standby is not a 
> viable option for this community since 'active' can be used to describe so 
> many things. If we can agree on leader/follower or some alternate we would 
> follow the community's preference and adopt leader/follower to better serve 
> our ActiveMQ users.
> 
> 
> 
> From all the previous discussions, I believe we have two options to replace 
> master/slave. Artemis will need to layer on a status (e.g.: active/standby) 
> but I think we can move forward on this vote without deciding what those 
> terms should be assuming people agree these options will support having a 
> status layered on top.
> 
> 
> 
> Please submit your +1/-1 vote on the following terms and please provide 
> specific comments/alternatives if you’re -1 for both options.
> 
> [ ] Leader/Follower
> 
> [ ] Primary/Backup
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://twitter.com/owenblacker/status/1517156221207212032
> 
> [2] 
> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/amazon-mq-creating-configuring-network-of-brokers.html#creating-configuring-network-of-brokers-configure-network-connectors
> 
> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-7514
> 
> [4] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-02.html
> 
> [5] https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/tier-1/
> [6] https://lists.apache.org/thread/rcwogpchjo9p461hqoj6m89q9t2qpqjj
> [7] https://lists.apache.org/thread/5ntnrbz1l92xbvno0s2jxhhf7nbs8d9c
> 
> Lucas Tétreault
> Software Development Manager, Amazon MQ
> email: tetlu...@amazon.com<mailto:tetlu...@amazon.com>
> 
> 

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