+1 to that. Really not big deal technically, but it might matter for the community.
Kind Regards, Bartek On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 10:29, Frederic Branczyk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to propose to change all occurrences and namings within the > Prometheus project of whitebox and blackbox monitoring. In itself the term > Black > box <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box> doesn't seem to come from a > racist background, but I think it's problematic when the opposite is > "white", in particular as this has a connotation in relation to > whitelist/blacklist namings which are undoubtedly problematic. I would like > to propose to replace them with open/closed box monitoring, which not only > removes any potential of being offensive, it actually conveys much more > clearly what is meant without having to explain. > > The biggest impact this would have would be renaming of the > blackbox_exporter <https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter> to > closedbox_exporter, all other occurrences of this language seem to be > limited to documentation. > > Best regards, > Frederic > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/98b3d620-d0d6-4436-bf15-3d90915f7909o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/98b3d620-d0d6-4436-bf15-3d90915f7909o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAMssQwZHkoym8ePZcs9cwyKHGJQDyYEgS1qFTe9t-Y40wJrDAA%40mail.gmail.com.
