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OpenZFS Removes "Slave" Terminology from Codebase

posted by martyb on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the who's-the-boss? dept.

takyon writes:

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.

Related: Allowlist, Not Whitelist. Blocklist, Not Blacklist. Microsoft Lops Off Offensive Words

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:28AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:28AM (#1007264)

    Even if he were literally Hitler.

    Slandering the dead is poor sport at best, as you said just.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:38AM (6 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:38AM (#1007274) Journal
    If you're really standing up for Hitler, I'll give you props for balls.

    He was still a syphilitic idiot, a mass murderer, and the man who lead his country to utter destruction.
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    If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:13AM (#1007351)

      He was still a syphilitic idiot, a mass murderer, and the man who lead his country to utter destruction.

      It's 'led' (l'ehd) if you mean the past tense of the verb 'lead" (l'ee'd).

      Lead (pronounced l'ehd) is a noun and a heavy metal.

      And you're welcome.

      --The Usage Nazi

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:05PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:05PM (#1007500)

      Oh please. What a bunch of regurgitated Bolshevik propaganda where the good guy trying to free his country from foreign invaders and saboteurs is the bad guy. I always wondered how so-called Neo-Nazis could idolize a guy who was so crazy and killed so many innocent people in gas chambers...That's because it's a pile of bullshit.

      watch Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @10:10PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @10:10PM (#1007569)

        https://imgur.com/gallery/nUtifYK [imgur.com]

        This is an essay (text/html;charset=utf-8) with citations refuting that so-called documentary.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @11:58PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @11:58PM (#1007604)

          That is a horrible essay. He uses bad logic to make shitty and extraneous arguments. All you need to refute the "documentary" are the countless testimonies of the people that lived through it. Germany and WWII are very significant in recent history, and there are mountains of credible evidence.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:50PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:50PM (#1007847)

            credible evidence for what exactly? typhus and starving? or bs gas chambers?

      • (Score: 1) by Arik on Thursday June 18 2020, @12:39AM

        by Arik (4543) on Thursday June 18 2020, @12:39AM (#1009362) Journal
        You clearly need to slow down and read.

        I said in that case I'd give him props for balls. Not brains.
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        If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?