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Andy Wenk commented on COUCHDB-2248:
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I have never thought in the way, that master and slave are racially charged
terms in this context. And I don't see it. These terms are very well known in
the database world. I admit that one can think, that it sounds rude, but I do
not expect a technical involved person to think like this (I just had a
discussion about the well known German word "Technologische Führerschaft" where
"Führer" means leader and "Führer" was the commonly used word for Adolf Hitler.
But because the word is perfectly describing the context, we did not change it
although my brain shivers all the time I read or spell it).
For me, it would be confusing to change the wording and I think it would also
confuse many users. I like the word peer, but unfortunately it is misleading
because one is reminded of the BitTorrent protocol or the PPSPP protocol
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol-09 ->
http://swirl-project.org/).
I do like "multi-master" replication. That would be clear and would not confuse
people by changing already well known terms.
> Replace "master" and "slave" terminology
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> Key: COUCHDB-2248
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2248
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Noah Slater
> Priority: Trivial
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> Inspired by the comments on this PR:
> https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692
> Summary is: `master` and `slave` are racially charged terms, and it would be
> good to avoid them. Django have gone for `primary` and `replica`. But we also
> have to deal with what we now call multi-master setups. I propose "peer to
> peer" as a replacement, or just "peer" if you're describing one node.
> As far as I can tell, the primary work here is the docs. The wiki and any
> supporting material can be updated after.
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