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Shawn Heisey commented on SOLR-14702:
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It's a good thing to address these details. Even though I doubt any offense
was intended, these terms have baggage and we should eliminate even the
appearance of supporting that baggage.
I believe it's a mistake to use the same words for legacy and cloud. I'm
opposed to reusing leader/follower, which are terms already present in
SolrCloud, for legacy replication.
We already have a difficult time getting users to understand the complexities
involved, particularly because SolrCloud actually does utilize replication, in
a way that's quite different than legacy. If we use the same terms for the
different things found in the two different modes, that confusion is going to
get worse.
Supporting users becomes infinitely more difficult and time-consuming when you
have to back up to clarify things because certain terms have different meanings
depending on some context that hasn't been shared yet.
> Remove Master and Slave from Code Base and Docs
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> Key: SOLR-14702
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14702
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Affects Versions: master (9.0)
> Reporter: Marcus Eagan
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: SOLR-14742-testfix.patch
>
> Time Spent: 6h 50m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Every time I read _master_ and _slave_, I get pissed.
> I think about the last and only time I remember visiting my maternal great
> grandpa in Alabama at four years old. He was a sharecropper before WWI, where
> he lost his legs, and then he was back to being a sharecropper somehow after
> the war. Crazy, I know. I don't know if the world still called his job
> sharecropping in 1993, but he was basically a slave—in America. He lived in
> the same shack that his father, and his grandfather (born a slave) lived in
> down in Alabama. Believe it or not, my dad's (born in 1926) grandfather was
> actually born a slave, freed shortly after birth by his owner father. I never
> met him, though. He died in the 40s.
> Anyway, I cannot police all terms in the repo and do not wish to. This
> master/slave shit is archaic and misleading on technical grounds. Thankfully,
> there's only a handful of files in code and documentation that still talk
> about masters and slaves. We should replace all of them.
> There are so many ways to reword it. In fact, unless anyone else objects or
> wants to do the grunt work to help my stress levels, I will open the pull
> request myself in effort to make this project and community more inviting to
> people of all backgrounds and histories. We can have leader/follower, or
> primary/secondary, but none of this Master/Slave nonsense. I'm sick of the
> garbage.
>
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