Re: Removing problematic language in geo-replication

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+1 for this.


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 10:04 AM Ravishankar N <ravishankar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The gluster code base has some words and terminology (blacklist,
> whitelist, master, slave etc.) that can be considered hurtful/offensive
> to people in a global open source setting. Some of words can be fixed
> trivially but the Geo-replication code seems to be something that needs
> extensive rework. More so because we have these words being used in the
> CLI itself. Two questions that I had were:
>
> 1. Can I replace master:slave with primary:secondary everywhere in the
> code and the CLI? Are there any suggestions for more appropriate
> terminology?
>
Primary:secondary looks good to me.
It needs lots of code change, and testing as well.
> 2. Is it okay to target the changes to a major release (release-9) and
> *not* provide backward compatibility for the CLI?
>
IMO, this should be okay.

3. We need to modify documation.
4. Modification in test cases as well.

> Thanks,
>
> Ravi
>
>
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