Re: Inclusive language (i.e. s/master/main/)

[John Bent <johnbent@xxxxxxxxx>]

A decision that you might want to consider is whether 'master' is only non-inclusive when used in 'master/slave' context or whether it is also non-inclusive when used by itself synonymously with primary/main. I'm personally of the opinion that both usages can be problematic.

I notice that there is also a fair bit of 'master' in the documentation:
https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/search/?q=master&check_keywords=yes&area=default

Many of these are in reference to the current master branch but a fair number are used as synonyms for primary such as:
https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rados/operations/add-or-rm-mons/?highlight=master#removing-monitors

Thanks for considering this!

John

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 9:35 AM Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A year or two ago we replaced all instances of master/slave terminology in the code itself, but I don't think we've talked about renaming the main branch name.  I suspect this might be a painful process given all of the bailing wire and duct tape involved in ceph-build.git and jenkins, but it might also be mostly handled with search/replace.

s

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 9:52 AM John Bent <johnbent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All,

Has a conversation been started yet about renaming the default development branch from master to main? And similarly cleaning other occurrences of ‘master’ in Ceph code and documentation?

Thanks

John

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