Hi,

It would be nice to have priorities of terms. Like 'master' may have low
importance, and some other words do not. High-priority words can be listed
at the top as red and low priorities as yellow.

Kind Regards,
Furkan KAMACI

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 5:46 AM William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net>
wrote:

> It could be also nice to whitelist a phrase, such as "Foo Master" but still
> be alerted to other occurences of "Master".
>
> That would solve their 80/20 (maybe 95/5 in this case.)
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2021, 19:48 Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Christofer,
> >
> > I don't know plc4x well, but have some generic ideas.
> >
> > You cannot unilaterally change what you depend on but you can control how
> > users see your interface. So your interface could use inclusive words
> like
> > primary/secondary and the interface maps these terms into the underlying
> > APIs that might use non-inclusive words.
> >
> > Perhaps you are already doing this anyway. But if you are required to use
> > terms that are part of the underlying APIs you can "ignore" them in the
> CLC
> > tool.
> >
> > So the tool can still be useful in highlighting your API's use of the
> > terms.
> >
> > Is there any point in raising these questions to "industry standards"
> > groups that your underlying platforms are members of?
> >
> > HTH,
> > Craig
> >
> > > On Sep 9, 2021, at 1:03 PM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just took the question about the CLC to the PLC4X project. There we
> > very quickly noticed that we would be stuck in a dilemma:
> > >
> > > We're implementing drivers for protocols that use pretty un-inclusive
> > terms ... A Modbus Master is simply called that, same as A Modbus Slave.
> A
> > PROFINET Master also simply is called that way. We could now decide to
> call
> > it something different, but that would definitiely confuse people.
> > >
> > > What are your thoughts on this?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com>
> > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. September 2021 14:40
> > > An: dev@diversity.apache.org; Łukasz Dywicki <l...@code-house.org>;
> > priv...@karaf.apache.org
> > > Betreff: Re: Conscious Language Checker at the ASF
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 9/5/21 6:03 PM, Łukasz Dywicki wrote:
> > >> My feeling is close to Christian's in this regard.
> > >>
> > >> Writing docs is usually harder than writing code, especially for for
> > >> non-native speakers. Similar thing applies to non-native readers of
> it.
> > >> Try writing up a piece of PKI description without using "Alice and
> Bob"
> > >> and correlated his/her phrases.
> > >>
> > >> While I understand that many society groups been going through various
> > >> troubles now and in the past, I do believe that changing of vocabulary
> > >> will simply not fix their issues. To be fair I don't know how to write
> > >> that to not step on somebody's else sensitive toe.
> > >
> > > You'll get no disagreement from me on that - anyone who thinks that
> > changing vocabulary will fix everything is fooling themselves. Nope, this
> > is one step out of many. But it's an important step, because it causes us
> > to *think* about how words affect others. And that, in my experience,
> leads
> > us to think about how *everything* affects others.
> > > Compassion and empathy start with small gestures. Small steps become
> > larger steps. Thinking that the small step is the entire solution is a
> > mistake. Worse yet, deciding not to take the small step because it's not
> > the entire solution, causes the larger steps to never be considered.
> > >
> > >> On 02.09.2021 20:18, Christian Schneider wrote:
> > >>> When there is a list of "bad" words and a tool that highlights them
> > >>> then this is exactly how it feels.
> > >>>
> > >>> Christian
> > >>>
> > >>> Am Do., 2. Sept. 2021 um 20:05 Uhr schrieb Rich Bowen <
> > rbo...@rcbowen.com>:
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 9/2/21 1:52 PM, Christian Schneider wrote:
> > >>>>> I do not like this effort. Banning words and pointing them out is
> > >>>>> the
> > >>>> wrong
> > >>>>> way to achieve an inclusive environment.
> > >>>>> Also I think words like he or she must not be banned. They are
> > >>>>> neutral words that are totally acceptable in many cases.
> > >>>>> Avoiding them in most documentation might be fine but having them
> > >>>>> on a
> > >>>> bad
> > >>>>> word list feels extremely wrong to me.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> In our well meant effort to be woke we sometimes go too far.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> You have misunderstood this initiative. Nothing is banned,
> > >>>> forbidden, struck from the language, or otherwise removed from use.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> If you agree that avoiding these words in documentation might be
> > >>>> fine, then we're on the same page.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Please don't make this into something it's not. Nobody has the
> > >>>> authority, or even the desire, to forbid you using certain words.
> > >>>> This tool is only intended to point out places where there *might*
> > >>>> be a better word choice.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com
> > >>>> @rbowen
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com
> > > @rbowen
> >
> > Craig L Russell
> > c...@apache.org
> >
> >
>

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