"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The word "whitelist" has cultural implications that make its use > non-inclusive. > > A previous version of this series recommended the replacement of > "allowlist", but that term is still new and not accepted by some common > dictionaries. > > Instead, this version avoids the use of "whitelist" by rewording the > sentences that use it. In many cases, this improves readability since the > term is used suddenly without other context (and in some cases, is not > necessary at all). > > There is one case where "whitelist" is replaced with "allow_list" but that > is because we are operating on a string list parsed from the > GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL environment variable. > > Thanks, -Stolee Maybe I am biased, but for all the changes in these patches, I find the updated text far easier to understand than a mere replacing of the words s/white/allow/, even if I pretend that allowlist is considered by everybody a proper part of English vocabulary. After all, I think most of the places did not have to say "whitelist" in the first place. Will queue. Thanks.
