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

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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:30AM (5 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:30AM (#1007266)

    it's a lot like life

    And, that's what's appealing.

    I had a co-worker who was triggered by the SPI bus nomenclature, she brought it up every time someone was explaining a circuit in a meeting.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @05:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @05:44PM (#1007492)

    lmao

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:54AM (3 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:54AM (#1007634)

    Should we change it to "boss" and "grunt"? :) (I'm only half kidding...)

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Reziac on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:26AM (2 children)

      by Reziac (2489) on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:26AM (#1007650) Homepage

      I suggest Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. (Also only half-kidding...)

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:19AM (1 child)

        by RS3 (6367) on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:19AM (#1007672)

        The haves and the have nots?

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by Reziac on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:44AM

          by Reziac (2489) on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:44AM (#1007676) Homepage

          Or the bits and the bitrots :)

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