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OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code
On Wednesday evening, ZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens submitted what should have been a simple, non-controversial pull request to the OpenZFS project: wherever possible without causing technical issues, the patch removed references to "slaves" and replaced them with "dependents."
This patch in question doesn't change the way the code functions—it simply changes variable names in a way that brings them in conformance with Linux upstream device-mapper terminology, in 48 total lines of code (42 removed and 48 added; with one comment block expanded slightly to be more descriptive).
But this being the Internet, unfortunately, outraged naysayers descended on the pull request, and the comments were quickly closed to non-contributors. I first became aware of this as the moderator of the r/zfs subreddit where the overflow spilled once comments on the PR itself were no longer possible.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:23AM (6 children)
Eh growing up before political correctness was a big deal the master/slave bit on hard drives always seemed a little weird. How about the world changes, adapt or die? Does that fit with your libertarian survival of the fittest meritocracy ideals?
Master/slave isn't even a very good designation for the technical reality.
Just a bunch of angry people who don't like change, same as it ever was.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:31AM (2 children)
Changes are being forced through as fast as possible to take advantage of the current situation. If you don't like the changes, you are against BLM and must be cancelled forever. Welcome to the woke cultural revolution.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @02:07AM (1 child)
Weren't you lot saying that complaints about police brutality against black people was overblown? That the kkk was nothing to worry about? Etc. etc. etc.?
Yeah, your predictions suck, but hey 1A and all feel free to keep whinging your stupidity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @12:01AM
Heh, fusty keeps whinging about "democrat downmods" like the partisan hack he is, and now the rightwing assholes are downmodding in retaliation. Hypocrisy as usual from the biggest losers around.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:31AM
Aren't you too forward for this stage of the plan? I thought your bosses wanted to repeal the Second Amendment first, before starting on reeducation camps.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday June 13 2020, @10:10PM (1 child)
Keep in mind that one may survive better by breaking the rules than by adapting to the rules! Evolution doesn't work like you think it does nor is it libertarian.
Here, I don't know whether OpenZFS really needed to make the change for non-PC as alleged in the story, but look at the comment on the pull request.
It's flamebait and ridiculous. No wonder that there's drama over the whole thing. My take on this is that such obsessions (and the resulting tempests in teacups) can destroy projects (rather than make them more fit in the Darwinian sense).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @04:34PM
wooosh
and if a name change like this destroys a project then it was likely infested with white supremacists and/or idiots, as usual wake me up when there is an actual problem