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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: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:40AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:40AM (#1007225)

    Male/Female connectors probably. What if that HDMI jack on your video card self identifies as male?

    I'd say that it was time to return the video card as defective.

    If you bought a video card with an HDMI jack, I hate to tell you, but you got fooled by a "ladyboy" video card. Next time, double check that the card has an HDMI socket before buying it.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:34AM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:34AM (#1007299) Journal

    On the one hand I think it's pretty silly.

    But on the other, holy shit look at all these triggered whiny little snowflakes! Trolling appears to go both ways and I've got to admit that it is fun to watch!