Let's take it easy on one another. Initially it looks it is going towards humanoid rights, but it is different than that (more than machines' will). More towards sensitivities of the users/admin who'd read/use such terms day in/out and associated sensibilities.
Unless it comes from standard, different people can choose similar but may not the same terms, and in this project contributors can take initiative & settle on something (doc, messages etc). Regards, Jagmeet On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 6:34 PM Vladimir Oltean <olte...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:42:40AM -0700, Richard Cochran wrote: > > > > In any case, this is just the kind of bikeshedding discussion that I > > want to avoid. > > But you are the one who asked for it, aren't you? > > I mean, yes, a slave is not only somebody who works for a master, but > somebody who does so for free and against their will. Whereas digital > entities don't really have a will, and therefore the term is > inappropriately used. In that sense, I think 'subordinate' is the word > you're looking for. Simple replacement and not as extravagant as > 'sheep'. > > That being said, 'master'/'slave' is a well-established technical > terminology which has little to do with human slavery, mind you. > I think you're going to have some difficulty fixing up config-visible > options such as 'slaveOnly' (without breaking deployments, which you > mentioned as one goal), so I'm not really sure what's the point, if > "words of dubious moral value" are not completely purged from the code > base. > > In the end I believe it's a balance between what problems this change is > solving, vs what problems it's creating. > > Thanks, > -Vladimir > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxptp-devel mailing list > Linuxptp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxptp-devel > -- Best Regards, ~ Jagmeet Singh Hanspal ~
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