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

[Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 11:07 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Which is the crux of the matter really: whatever you're going to pick 
> will have different connotations in other languages. Many ESL
> speakers 
> will primarily think in their own language and substitute the words
> to 
> English. So if you want to change terminology, I suggest getting a 
> domain expert involved rather than 'randomly' picking something that 
> sounds good to a small set of developers. That's how the original 
> master/slave wording was decided on after all.
That's an interesting point. I wonder what the acceptance criteria for a
new word are.
Has someone come up with a metric already?
How would a random string perform with such a metric? Like, say, the
SHA256 hash of the module's name. Or the first few bytes thereof.

Cheers,
  Tobi