End this thread now, please. [WAS Re: Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
People, Please end the thread at this point. Thank you. As Andy Smith points out, I asked politely for this thread to cease a while ago because it would degenerate to more heat than light. I was wrong - it degenerated to futility. Please remember the FAQ: remember the Code of Conduct and the

Re: Please terminate this faecal matter - the whole thread appears to be a troll.....Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 2:59 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 16/3/24 02:27, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 11:09 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: > >> Seriously, you humans have only another five billion Earth years until > >> your sun engulfs your home planet, and you're spending time on

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 10:52:17PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I think the discussion might usefully stop at this point before it > degenerates to more heat than light (as is the way of most discussions > eventually - call it an application of mailing list entropy :) ) Three weeks on

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Emanuel Berg
Will Mengarini wrote: >> With no intention of ever creating a 100% offensive-free >> language, removing the worst offenders from the scene often >> is enough. > > Words I find offensive include "authority" and "manager", so > checking `apropos authori manager` I see we have a lot of > important

Please terminate this faecal matter - the whole thread appears to be a troll.....Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/3/24 02:27, Van Snyder wrote: On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 11:09 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: Seriously, you humans have only another five billion Earth years until your sun engulfs your home planet, and you're spending time on *THIS*?! At the rate that sea plants and creatures are removing

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 11:09 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: > Seriously, you humans have only another five billion Earth years until > your sun engulfs your home planet, and you're spending time on *THIS*?! At the rate that sea plants and creatures are removing CO2 from the atmosphere to combine it

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Will Mengarini
* Mariusz Gronczewski [24-02/23=Fr 10:33 +0100]: >>> It's entirely US political feel-good activism that >>> doesn't change anything but wastes people's time. Do >>> you actually think pressing on brake pedal oppresses >>> anybody? Because it also has master and slave cylinders. >>> >>> All it

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Emanuel Berg
Mike Castle wrote: > Was that explicitly stated anywhere? Or is the lack of any > type of explicit "I'm willing to help drive this" statements > leading to that conclusion? Relax, everyone does something somewhere. But it would be a boring world if they were only allowed to talk about that. --

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Emanuel Berg
Alain D D Williams wrote: > That is the big difference. Not use words *currently* deemed > offensive in *new* publications (books, newspaper articles, > ...) - this is not hard to do. Indeed, and that is what you should focus on. The past is the past anyway. > What we are faced with is

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 09:01:30AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 1:49 AM Alain D D Williams wrote: > > We seem to be told that this must be done by those who will not be doing the > > work. > > Was that explicitly stated anywhere? Or is the lack of any type of > explicit

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 1:49 AM Alain D D Williams wrote: > We seem to be told that this must be done by those who will not be doing the > work. Was that explicitly stated anywhere? Or is the lack of any type of explicit "I'm willing to help drive this" statements leading to that conclusion?

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 01:42:25AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Mike Castle wrote: > > >> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. > >> Should we scour our systems looking for similar issues in > >> other languages? Then in, say, 20 years time when different > >> words will then be

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-14 Thread Emanuel Berg
Mike Castle wrote: >> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. >> Should we scour our systems looking for similar issues in >> other languages? Then in, say, 20 years time when different >> words will then be considered offensive, by some, do this >> all again? > > Yes. Remember,

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-14 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:07 AM Alain D D Williams wrote: > It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. Should we scour our > systems looking for similar issues in other languages ? Then in, say, 20 years > time when different words will then be considered offensive, by some, do this >

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-03-14 Thread Emanuel Berg
Alain D D Williams wrote: > However that is not the way that the world works, or prolly > more accurately how some people think. They see > a word/phrase that they have decided that they "own" or > somehow relates to them [...] I am not black so I have no idea how black people consider

Cease and desist, please [WAS Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP]

2024-02-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
[Also copied to commun...@debian.org] t's time to kill this thread - nothing useful is being said at this point. At its best, this list is useful for helping people and for providing information. It's also a window on the world of Debian and how Debian contributors, regulars on the list (and

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-25 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-25, o godz. 11:22:50 Alain D D Williams napisał(a): > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 07:44:44PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith > > wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades > > > walking back

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-25 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-25, o godz. 07:29:32 napisał(a): > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 06:05:26PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > May I interject a different perspective? > > what brings greater freedom, asking that words be changed by many, > > that some see, no matter how justified from their view as

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-25 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-25, o godz. 00:27:41 Marco Moock napisał(a): > Am Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:42:39 +0100 > schrieb Emanuel Berg : > > > I think the reason is black people shouldn't be associated > > with everything negative that is black in language. > > I can't understand why people draw that

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-25 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 07:44:44PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > [...] > > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking > > back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal > > in what our software

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-25 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-24, o godz. 19:44:44 Jeffrey Walton napisał(a): > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith > wrote: > > > > [...] > > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking > > back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal > > in what our

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-25 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:22:09AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > I think I'm out of it. *Plonk* > -- > t For keeping that promise would it be better to use "Reply-To-List". And in other cases is it also better to use "Reply-To-List". Groeten Geert Stappers P.S. The better

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-25 Thread tomas
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 06:30:35PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 2/25/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 09:14:44AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> The "problem" is asking the majority (10s of thousands of people) to > >> make efforts to help 1 or 2

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/25/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 06:05:26PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> May I interject a different perspective? >> what brings greater freedom, asking that words be changed by many, that >> some >> see, no matter how justified from their view as harmful? Or

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/25/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 09:14:44AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > [...] > >> The "problem" is asking the majority (10s of thousands of people) to >> make efforts to help 1 or 2 heal in their journey's of pain and >> healing. > > To make sure the "majority"

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 06:05:26PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > May I interject a different perspective? > what brings greater freedom, asking that words be changed by many, that some > see, no matter how justified from their view as harmful? Or teaching those > people how to free themselves

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread tomas
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 09:14:44AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: [...] > The "problem" is asking the majority (10s of thousands of people) to > make efforts to help 1 or 2 heal in their journey's of pain and > healing. To make sure the "majority" stays majority for all so ever: white, male,

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 6:37 PM Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 04:54:12PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > I sometimes think that something similar to Postel's Law but applied to > human > > interactions would be useful. However that is wishful thinking > > > I'm not

Re: Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > [...] > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking > back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal > in what our software accepts is untenable in the face of a hostile > Internet. ++. Postel's Law

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/25/24, Marco Moock wrote: > Am Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:42:39 +0100 > schrieb Emanuel Berg : > >> I think the reason is black people shouldn't be associated >> with everything negative that is black in language. > > I can't understand why people draw that association. > Black as a color is

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Marco Moock
Am Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:42:39 +0100 schrieb Emanuel Berg : > I think the reason is black people shouldn't be associated > with everything negative that is black in language. I can't understand why people draw that association. Black as a color is different from the skin and different from illegal

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Karen Lewellen
May I interject a different perspective? what brings greater freedom, asking that words be changed by many, that some see, no matter how justified from their view as harmful? Or teaching those people how to free themselves from being controlled by those words? Yes, your goals may be honorable

I think we can't disappear ifenslave documentation just yet (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 10:52:17PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If anyone wants to remove the references to ifenslave and > substitute others, that's entirely fine. I really don't think in this specific case it would be a good idea to remove all mention of ifenslave because: - The

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
[On list: copied to commun...@debian.org] Hi people, As you might have expected: this subject is drifting off-topic and becoming a little more personal. In answer to the first question: there's a reference to a wiki page. It's a wiki page: it can be edited by (almost) anyone. If anyone wants to

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 09:17:15AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 2/24/24, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 01:35:14PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> I wrote: > >> > You seem by now to have ignored multiple messages where it was made > >> > clear that the work was

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/23/24, Arno Lehmann wrote: > On 23.02.24 at 10:33, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: >> On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I know this is a loaded topic... > ... >> There is no good reason *why*. It's entirely US political feel-good >> activism > > Statement one above

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/24/24, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 01:35:14PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> I wrote: >> > You seem by now to have ignored multiple messages where it was made >> > clear that the work was already done. >> >> Assuming we care about the most rapid healing possible for

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/25/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 04:54:12PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 09:03:45AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> > > It was a BLM thing, not sure if it matters the etymology of such >> > > words. >> > >> > The etymology certainly

Postel's Law (Was Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP)

2024-02-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 04:54:12PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > I sometimes think that something similar to Postel's Law but applied to human > interactions would be useful. However that is wishful thinking The basic assumption that people mean well is how con artists and high pressure

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-24, o godz. 14:42:39 Emanuel Berg napisał(a): > jeremy ardley wrote: > > >> But what about the black market? Or does in fact "block > >> market" work just fine? > > > > The term "black market" is from World War II - i.e. 1939-45. > > It has nothing to do with slaves. It means

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 04:54:12PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 09:03:45AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > It was a BLM thing, not sure if it matters the etymology of such > > > words. > > > > The etymology certainly *should* matter, insofar as that is the origin

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 09:03:45AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > It was a BLM thing, not sure if it matters the etymology of such > > words. > > The etymology certainly *should* matter, insofar as that is the origin > of the *meaning* of the word(s). +1 However that is not the way that the

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-24 at 08:42, Emanuel Berg wrote: > jeremy ardley wrote: > >>> But what about the black market? Or does in fact "block market" >>> work just fine? >> >> The term "black market" is from World War II - i.e. 1939-45. It has >> nothing to do with slaves. It means transactions in the dark,

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Emanuel Berg
jeremy ardley wrote: >> But what about the black market? Or does in fact "block >> market" work just fine? > > The term "black market" is from World War II - i.e. 1939-45. > It has nothing to do with slaves. It means transactions in > the dark, not visible,  not official. I think the reason is

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/2/24 19:25, Emanuel Berg wrote: But what about the black market? Or does in fact "block market" work just fine? The term "black market" is from World War II - i.e. 1939-45. It has nothing to do with slaves. It means transactions in the dark, not visible,  not official.

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread Emanuel Berg
Marco Moock wrote: > Just check what different meanings GIMP has. Maybe some more > people now feel uncomfortable with using it. > https://www.dict.cc/?s=gimp Yes, people have been saying that for quite some time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20359520]

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 01:35:14PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I wrote: > > You seem by now to have ignored multiple messages where it was made > > clear that the work was already done. > > Assuming we care about the most rapid healing possible for those who > are actually triggered by

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
>> Yeah like asking other people to do changes because they want to be >> activists on internet but can't bother to put effort to do anything >> that actually helps anyone. > > You seem by now to have ignored multiple messages where it was made > clear that the work was already done. Assuming we

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:10:31 +0100 Ralph Aichinger wrote: > I just think this mailing > list probably is not the right place to argue this question. Hear, hear! Those who wish to weigh in have done so. I doubt any further argumentation will change anyone else's mind. Now kindly stop wasting

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 09:26:09PM +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > in my /etc/interfaces there is now: > > auto bond0 > iface bond0 inet static > address 10.0.16.2/24 > bond-slaves en0 en1 > bond-mode 4 > bond-miimon 100 > bond-downdelay 200 > bond-updelay

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Fri, 2024-02-23 at 20:10 +, Andy Smith wrote: > One more time: a successor to the Ethernet bonding driver already > exists and has for more than 10 years. That is the other thing I wanted to ask here, I have configured a LACP link aggregating interface more or less similar to what is

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Fri, 2024-02-23 at 18:13 +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > "Do what I say, discussion is not allowed because I don't want to > make a sensible arguments!" This certainly is not my position. I have no problem arguing this question, and I've got an opinion on it. I just think this mailing

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Fri, 2024-02-23 at 11:07 +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > > Debian is mostly a collection of many packages that are packed in the > repo.Such changes are normally done upstream. I found e.g. this on upstream work on that topic:

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 06:14:02PM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 14:50:12 > fxkl4...@protonmail.com napisał(a): > > too many people have nothing constuctive to do > > so they spend there days stirring the pile > > idle hands and all that > > Yeah like asking

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Kamil Jońca
Dan Ritter writes: > Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> I don't want to bikeshed, though. Slavery ended in the US about 150 >> years ago. I don't know any slaves, and I don't own any slaves, so I >> don't really have a dog in the fight. > > > Point of fact: slavery is legal in the USA, as a legal

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 1:13 PM Gremlin wrote: > > On 2/23/24 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [ >/dev/null ] > > > > > Let's bring it back around to actual action. > > > > The possible positions: > > > > 1. The terminology is bad, and I'm willing to work on fixing it. > > >

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 5:36 AM Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e. > how far this has been progressed in Debian. > > Is there anything planned to get "master/slave"

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Marco Moock
Am 23.02.2024 um 12:51:59 Uhr schrieb Dan Ritter: > 1. The terminology is bad, and I'm willing to work on fixing it. > > 2. The terminology is bad, but I can't work on it myself. > > 3. The terminology does not bother me, but I don't care if someone > else wants to fix it. > > 4. The

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 23.02.2024 schrieb Alain D D Williams : > > > It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. Should we scour > > our systems looking for similar issues in other languages ? [...] Fifty years ago it was "normal" to beat

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Gremlin
On 2/23/24 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote: Jeffrey Walton wrote: [ >/dev/null ] Let's bring it back around to actual action. The possible positions: 1. The terminology is bad, and I'm willing to work on fixing it. 2. The terminology is bad, but I can't work on it myself. 3. The terminology

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I don't want to bikeshed, though. Slavery ended in the US about 150 > years ago. I don't know any slaves, and I don't own any slaves, so I > don't really have a dog in the fight. Point of fact: slavery is legal in the USA, as a legal punishment. Other point of fact:

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 14:50:12 fxkl4...@protonmail.com napisał(a): > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:19:16AM +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > >> I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > >> political aspects of the

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 14:44:03 Andy Smith napisał(a): > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:19:16AM +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > > political aspects of the "why", > > No surprise that there are a lot of people in this

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 5:08 AM Marco Moock wrote: > Am 22.02.2024 schrieb Ralph Aichinger : > [...] > > Is there anything planned to get "master/slave" terminology out of > > network bonding/LACP in Debian (or Linux kernel or whoever decides > > this terminology)? I know these things are slow to

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread fxkl47BF
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:19:16AM +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: >> I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the >> political aspects of the "why", > > No surprise that there are a lot of people in this thread with very >

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:19:16AM +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > political aspects of the "why", No surprise that there are a lot of people in this thread with very strong feelings that they simply must tell us about, even

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > It would *literally* break every single script that checks the status > of bonding config in system, as it is all just plain text. Unless a different driver was made instead. Which is what actually happened. Thanks, Andy

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:14:10PM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 11:25:25 > Roger Price napisał(a): > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Marco Moock wrote: > > > The only package I am aware of that changed some terms is sendmail. > > > > > > > With the publication of

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 02/23/2024 07:33 AM, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 12:40:19 Arno Lehmann napisał(a): On 23.02.24 at 10:33, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: Hello! I know this is a loaded topic... ... There is no good reason *why*. It's

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 12:40:19 Arno Lehmann napisał(a): > On 23.02.24 at 10:33, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > > On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> I know this is a loaded topic... > ... > > There is no good reason *why*. It's entirely US political feel-good

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Marco Moock
Am 23.02.2024 schrieb Arno Lehmann : > If there's a single person in the world who feels existing > terminology to hurt them, I consider my usage of such terms. Everytime there is somebody who doesn't like something. I mostly care about technology and not the feelings a small amount of users

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Arno Lehmann
On 23.02.24 at 10:33, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: Hello! I know this is a loaded topic... ... There is no good reason *why*. It's entirely US political feel-good activism Statement one above proven. ... All it does is wastes tens of thousands of

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 10:54:09 napisał(a): > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > > On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > > > political aspects of the "why",

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 11:25:25 Roger Price napisał(a): > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Marco Moock wrote: > > > The only package I am aware of that changed some terms is sendmail. > > > > With the publication of RFC 9271 "UPS Management Protocol", the nut > packages (Network UPS Tools) did a

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Marco Moock wrote: The only package I am aware of that changed some terms is sendmail. With the publication of RFC 9271 "UPS Management Protocol", the nut packages (Network UPS Tools) did a vocabulary cleanup at release 2.8.0 which included changing Master/Slave to

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Marco Moock
Am 23.02.2024 schrieb Alain D D Williams : > It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. Should we scour > our systems looking for similar issues in other languages ? Then in, > say, 20 years time when different words will then be considered > offensive, by some, do this all again ? In

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:00:39AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 23.02.2024 schrieb : [...] > > Oh, goody. A culture warrior. > > I'm sure you have good reasons for changing the terms. Feel free to > provide some real arguments that have a benefit for the users. I'm not the one proposing

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Marco Moock
Am 22.02.2024 schrieb Ralph Aichinger : > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e. > how far this has been progressed in Debian. Debian is mostly a collection of many packages that are packed in the

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e. > > how far this has

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Marco Moock
Am 23.02.2024 schrieb : > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > > On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > > > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33:08AM +0100, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e. > > how far this has

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote: Hello! I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e. how far this has been progressed in Debian. There is no good reason *why*. It's entirely US political

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:19:16AM +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > I know this is a loaded topic. I really don't want to discuss the > political aspects of the "why", but just want to know the facts, i.e. > how far this has been progressed in Debian. As Debian is not itself upstream for most