Yup, it would be great to do this. FWIW, I would propose using “worker” everywhere instead unless it already means something in that context, just to have a single word for this (instead of multiple words such as agent, replica, etc), but I haven’t looked into whether that would make anything confusing.
> On Jun 18, 2020, at 1:14 PM, Holden Karau <hol...@pigscanfly.ca> wrote: > > Thank you. I agree being careful with API comparability is important. I think > in situations where the terms are exposed in our API we can introduce > alternatives and deprecate the old ones to allow for a smooth migration. > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:28 PM Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com > <mailto:r...@databricks.com>> wrote: > Thanks for doing this. I think this is a great thing to do. > > But we gotta be careful with API compatibility. > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:32 AM, Holden Karau <hol...@pigscanfly.ca > <mailto:hol...@pigscanfly.ca>> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've started working on cleaning up the Spark code to remove references to > slave since the word has a lot of negative connotations and we can generally > replace it with more accurate/descriptive words in our code base. The PR is > at https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28864 > <https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28864> (I'm a little uncertain on the > place of where I chose the name "AgentLost" as the replacement, suggestions > welcome). > > At some point I think we should explore deprecating master as well, but that > is used very broadley inside of our code and in our APIs, so while it is > visible to more people changing it would be more work. I think having > consensus around removing slave though is a good first step. > > Cheers, > > Holden > > -- > Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau <https://twitter.com/holdenkarau> > Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 > <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> > YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau > <https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau> > -- > Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau <https://twitter.com/holdenkarau> > Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 > <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> > YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau > <https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau>
