Wokeness in the Software Development World

[Axtremus]

GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53050955

Dropping the “master/slave” terminology aside, the article also mentions the dropping of the “blacklist/whitelist” terminology.

Wonder when will musicians move away from the “black key/white key” terminology and that would the replacements be.

[Loki]

Binary is next.

[Copper]

It's a dark day for terminology.

[Mik]

FFS

[89th]

It's all so dumb. Although I do admit when I'm working on a system and I refer to the slave (e.g., database replication).

[Klaus]

I think they abandoned "master" only. I don't think "slave" means anything in Git terminology.

It's silly. Are we renaming the Msc degree, too? I wonder whether anyone outside of a few ultra white woke developers ever objected to the term.

[Doctor Phibes]

Where I come from the word 'git' is an insulting term, sometimes pronounced 'get', as in the Beatles lyric '...and curse sir Walter Raleigh he was such a stupid get'

Apparently nobody cares about my feelings at all.

[Copper]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Wokeness in the Software Development World:

Apparently nobody cares about my feelings at all.

You'd say I'm putting you on

[Axtremus]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Wokeness in the Software Development World:

Where I come from the word 'git' is an insulting term, sometimes pronounced 'get', as in the Beatles lyric '...and curse sir Walter Raleigh he was such a stupid get'

OK, so GitHub is a hub of (or for) gits.
You got a problem with that?

[mark]

@89th said in Wokeness in the Software Development World:

It's all so dumb. Although I do admit when I'm working on a system and I refer to the slave (e.g., database replication).

The Danish database company, FrontBase, uses Replication Master and Client.

When setup in a cluster, they are simply called nodes.

I suppose the word Master could come under fire.

Whatever. None of this bothers me in the least. Let the language evolve. It's probably going to no matter what I think anyway.