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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:47AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:47AM (#1007232)

    I condemn the manner of George Floyd's death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform.

    I do not worship the image of the BLM Pharaoh George Floyd or wish to purge American culture for his sake.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:31AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:31AM (#1007297)

    Well you're doing a shitty job of defending freedom then. You trade life for "muh racism" and want anyone to take you seriously? Freedom of association is a bitch, and no matter how hard you whine most people aren't going to want bigots in their lives. I will not ignore actual oppression for your feefees, and I won't get worried about the changing of some variable names because you're an idiot.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:37AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:37AM (#1007334)

      How have you determined that this anonymous poster is racist?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @11:52PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @11:52PM (#1007603)

        Only some levels of bigotry would bother defending Floyd's murderer or the systems that led to such nazi fucks being allowed to pretend they are law enforcement.