Our well-known 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 hosting portal code είναι η τελευταία σε μια μακρά σειρά εταιρειών technology and 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.
Οι όροι που θα αλλαχθούν συμπεριλαμβάνουν τα “master” και “slave” και θα αντικατασταθούν με εναλλακτικές λύσεις όπως “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, in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests across the US, the tech community is once again involved in efforts to remove these terms from source code, software applications and online services.
So the storage manager files 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 submitting requests for information several internal Microsoft libraries to remove any racist phrases.
