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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:51AM (1 child)
> In the electronics engineering world...
Except it was never actually that simple... Remember the D-sub connectors, as were ubiquitous not that long ago? Plugs can have pins or holes to accept pins, as can sockets. Granted, there were some standards, but in those days "standards" were even less standard than they are today, and I have a big box of examples to this effect. There are other examples, but that was a common one.
and jacks don't mate with sockets, they are both synonymous with "receptacle" in your usage.
(Score: 2) by corey on Saturday June 13 2020, @09:50AM
Yeah my usage of jack and socket isn't a good example.
We used some Micro-D connectors a while back at work, where the receptacle I think was a series of solid pins with a plastic surround fill, and the plug's "pins" were actually metallic tubes for the receptacle solid pins to go into. Talk about confusing. Awesome connectors though. $300 each too.