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Noah Slater commented on COUCHDB-2248:
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> This is your opinion but you state it like a fact. Multiple voices have
> expressed that they do not agree with you. You respond by dismissing their
> right to express that opinion.
I have never dismissed anybody's right to express their opinion.
I accept your opinion that it is not discriminatory or offensive speech. But as
I said in my previous comment, "there are people in the tech community who do.
You do not need to understand that, or even agree with it. The fact remains. As
a community that values openness, inclusivity, and diversity, this is a topic
that we should take seriously."
The argument seems to be that because there are a few people on this ticket (or
friends of people on this ticket) who do not see the issue, we should not make
the change. My argument is that as a community that cares about diversity, this
argument doesn't hold. We should acknowledge that for some people this is an
issue, and we should make the appropriate changes.
Acknowledging that other people have diverse perspectives is a key part of
building a diverse community.
> To update the documentation, please just show an actual diff and we can
> discuss or vote on it.
I have done, in my previous comment. I propose we change it to:
"You could use multi-master, single-master, partitioning, sharding,
write-through caches, and all sorts of other complex techniques."
(Thanks to Alexander for this suggestion!)
As for the master/slave term in general. That is beyond the scope of this
ticket. We currently do not have any need to use it in our docs or on our
website. Though if we did, I would want us to consider alternate terms.
Discussing that now is unnecessary. Please let's just focus on the one instance
of "slave" we have at the moment.
> 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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