Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

[Daniel Mustieles García <daniel mustieles gmail com>]

Emmanuele, that was only a joke, to try to calm things down ;-)

My main target is to talk about the current change in Geary's master branch. Once fixed or resolved that point, we can discuss the next step

El jue., 25 abr. 2019 a las 16:27, Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi gmail com>) escribió:

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 15:24, Daniel Mustieles García via desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:

The next change we could discuss is about to remove daemons, parents killing child process, zombies...

Let's not play the tiresome "slippery slope" fallacy, here, and try to stick to the topic of the naming of the default branch of the Git repositories.

Ciao,

 Emmanuele.

El jue., 25 abr. 2019 a las 16:17, Christopher Davis via desktop-devel-list (<desktop-devel-list gnome org>) escribió:

It does not reflect on history, it is not a reference to it.

That's not how language works. Language is years of words being assigned meaning. As you

described it, master/slave terminology has the same exact meaning of a relationship between a

real master and slave. That connection is the problematic bit, because in some countries slavery

wasn't all that long ago, and in some places it's never left or it changed forms.

If we want to be an inclusive project, it would be beneficial to use language that do esn't scratch at scars

when we have other metaphors we can use.

Regards,

Chris

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:12 AM, Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net> wrote:

On 2019-04-25 9:58 a.m., Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list wrote:

If you cannot maintain even a semblance of a civil discourse, the door is shown to you at the bottom of every email.

Fine, if you want it stated a different way, the terms being used are as accurate as possible. There is a master process. It tells a slave what to do. The slave process does it, no questions asked. This is what machines do. It is accurate. It does not reflect on history, it is not a reference to it. --Pat _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

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