On 6/26/21 3:04 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 17:56 +0900, [email protected] wrote: >> The Linux team plan to removed references to racially-charged jargon from >> their code for more neutral and inclusive language. >> So replace use of "whitelist" with "allowlist" in cve-check. >> >> First, we add CVE_CHECK_ALLOWLIST and it is considered patched as well as >> CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST. >> We plan to replace about other word later and eventualy, replace all >> "whitelist" to "allowlist". >> >> Signed-off-by: Yuichi Ito <[email protected]> > The TSC did discuss this and proposed a plan on how we should go about > addressing these issues: > > https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/topic/inclusive_language_summary/75821819 > > I appreciate this patch has good intent but I would really like to > see a wider plan on how we address this rather than changing single > variables piecemeal. > > For example we may want to standardise on the term "IGNORE" rather than > "ALLOW" or even "FILTER" or "VERIFIED" or something more specific to the > meaning > of CVEs and CVE checking. > > There is an opportunity to try and make the metadata and variable names > more consistent and understandable but if we just change single things at > a time this opportunity would be missed.
I have created a wiki page to collate our thoughts and agreements to help us move foreword in a coherent manner to address renaming some troubling variable names. https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Inclusive_language I logged some variable names along with a few renaming examples. Maybe this can turn into a plan??? Since it's a wiki, please edit accordingly. - armin Cheers, > Richard > > > >
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