I know im a bit late to the party (the blog post was on the 10th).
But mozilla awarded 15k to a project in order to "... remove the term "slave" from all documentation, APIs and tests, and also to make improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud".
Relevant blog post
Please keep in mind that the terms "Master" and "Slave" is a real technical term and has been in use for decades.
I honestly don't like this change.
Some people will argue that this is literally just a word and can be quickly changed without any hassle. And I could also argue that the word "plate" should be changed to "flat plane" to stop a small minority from being offended.
What really annoys me though is that Mozilla is paying for this to happen. I can sort of get behind individual projects changing to a new naming system through their own volition. That's how languages change over time (I don't have to agree with it but it will happen). But I can't get behind a non profit organisation such as Mozilla paying someone to do this.
It's like unicef paying someone 100k to change "3rd world countries" to "less privileged countries" in all of their marketing. They have better things to do with their money.
But mozilla awarded 15k to a project in order to "... remove the term "slave" from all documentation, APIs and tests, and also to make improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud".
Relevant blog post
Please keep in mind that the terms "Master" and "Slave" is a real technical term and has been in use for decades.
I honestly don't like this change.
Some people will argue that this is literally just a word and can be quickly changed without any hassle. And I could also argue that the word "plate" should be changed to "flat plane" to stop a small minority from being offended.
What really annoys me though is that Mozilla is paying for this to happen. I can sort of get behind individual projects changing to a new naming system through their own volition. That's how languages change over time (I don't have to agree with it but it will happen). But I can't get behind a non profit organisation such as Mozilla paying someone to do this.
It's like unicef paying someone 100k to change "3rd world countries" to "less privileged countries" in all of their marketing. They have better things to do with their money.