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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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @05:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @05:39PM (#1007491)

    You are free to use whatever terminology you want, but don't expect others to play by your rules.

    Agreed. I am not a fan of the transgender pronoun thing either.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:58PM (#1007549)

    Dick girl here. Butbut why does nobody use male pronouns with me? Can't you tell I have an extra 2mm of bone here on my face, and shirely your acute hearing must be able to distinguish between a real womyn's voice and mine? Why do you keep attacking cislesbians in the bathroom and misgendering them while you let me get in close to you where my sexy pheromones can hack your brain, and then the next thing you know it's too late and you feel all 9 inches of my girl cock sliding up tween your asscheeks pumping you full of girl jizz.