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Joan Touzet commented on COUCHDB-2248:
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"peer to peer replication" sounds like BitTorrent and also gives the wrong 
impression. There is no mistaking what "master-master replication" means in the 
database world.

I am opposed to changing away from the well-understood "master-master 
replication" terminology unless there is another well-understood term we can 
use to replace it. CouchDB needs to be less obscure, not more.

> Replace "master" and "slave" terminology
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-2248
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2248
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: Documentation
>            Reporter: Noah Slater
>            Priority: Trivial
>
> Inspired by the comments on this PR:
> https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692
> Summary is: `master` and `slave` are racially charged terms, and it would be 
> good to avoid them. Django have gone for `primary` and `replica`. But we also 
> have to deal with what we now call multi-master setups. I propose "peer to 
> peer" as a replacement, or just "peer" if you're describing one node.
> As far as I can tell, the primary work here is the docs. The wiki and any 
> supporting material can be updated after.



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