Our acquaintance GitHub will replace the term “master” (and not only) with an alternative to avoid references to slavery
Yes, GitHub seems to be preparing to replace the term "master" in its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any references to slavery, the company's CEO said on Friday.
The code hosting portal is the latest in a long line of companies technologyand open source projects that try to express their support for the BLM movement by removing terms that might be offensive to developers in the black community.
The terms that will be changed include “master” and “slave” and will be replaced with alternatives solutions like “main/default/primary” και “secondary”. Να αναφέρουμε ότι θα αντικατασταθούν και οι όροι “blacklist” και “whitelist” με τους όρους “allow list” and “deny/exclude list.”
The concern of technology companies is that the continued use of these terms could prolong racial stereotypes.
"Such terminology not only reflects our racist culture, but also serves to strengthen, legitimize and perpetuate it," some academics said in a statement. 2018 publication.
So now on the occasion of his protests black lives matter across the US, the technology community is once again engaged in efforts to remove these terms from source code, software applications and online services.
So the Admin file storage OpenZFS already replaced the master/slave terms it used to describe the relationships between storage environments with appropriate terms.
Gabriel Csapo, software engineer at LinkedIn, said on Twitter this week that it is also in the process of requesting updates from several Microsoft internal libraries to remove any racist phrases.