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 getting ready to replace the term “master” in the service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any references to slavery, as stated by its CEO companyon Friday.
The portal code hosting 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.
Terms that will be changed include “master” and “slave” and will be replaced with alternatives such as “main/default/primary” and “secondary”. We should mention that the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist” with the terms “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 with the Black Lives Matter protests across the US, the tech community is once again engaging in efforts to remove these terms from the source code, software applications and online services.
Thus the OpenZFS file storage manager has already replaced the master / slave terms it used to describe the relationships between storage environments in 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.