As some of you may have notice, a hot discussion is happening in the comments of this pull request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692 Essentially, this pull request suggests that all occurences of master/slave be replaced with leader/follower. While this is clearly insane, a less jaw-dropping, but still weird change was made in commit https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a02352ae1
Many users in comments to the original pull request agreed that primary/replica is not a good word choice, is vague and misleading. Current django docs compensate for the confusion by referring to "master/slave" in parentheses after mentioning "primary/replica". Of course, this change is nothing more than cosmetical, but it still carries more downsides than upsides. Master/slave is* immediately obvious* for the experienced users, and *easily googleable* for the newbies. I reverted the change and sent a pull request https://github.com/django/django/pull/2720. In the corresponding ticket, I was told to "wait 6 months" and then resubmit the ticket. (https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/22707), and the pull request was closed immediately with an advice to start a discussion on mailing list. So that's what I'm doing here :) I sum up my personal point of view in this comment: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44265422 Of course, it'll be hard for the django maintainers to admit their mistake and revert the change. It's always hard to admit mistakes, but it's better than leaving it how it is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/5467a1df-004a-471d-abc4-fcaf086e8193%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
