On Friday, 19 June 2020 16:32:19 -04 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:14 PM Eike Lantzsch <zp6...@gmx.net> wrote: > > On the danger of starting a flame war ... > > thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian > > > > instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: > > "allowlist" and "rejectlist" > > instead of (for example on disk drives) "master" and "slave" I like to > > propose > > the terms: > > "lead" and "lag" which are e.g. used when electrically managing two pumps > > working on the same hydraulic circuit. > > > > What do you think? > > Keeping with the color dynamic but disconnecting it from potential racial > connotations, how about "redlist" and "greenlist"? I kinda feel like the > five common traffic signal colors are pretty universal, especially the > first three.
I really like "redlist" and "greenlist". Traffic lights abound in every country and are most probably well understood everywhere. Have a nice day Eike