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Joan Touzet commented on COUCHDB-2248:
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I have Native American heritage and was born in the USA, does that mean I
qualify as an American POC? First Nations people certainly were enslaved and
the subjects of a concerted genocide effort. Was the comment made by a POC
specifically about CouchDB's documentation?
We really never talk about "slave" in our docs. No one has yet suggested a
suitable replacement for multi-master replication. Rather than continuing to
fight over intent and hurt feelings, I suggest we table this discussion until
there is some replacement worth discussing. I also recommend that such change
appear in a diff or commit somewhere, rather than as a stump speech here in
CouchDB.
> 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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