Veerendra Singavarapu created KAFKA-10796:
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Summary: USE OF BLACK HOLE RACIST TERMINOLOGY
Key: KAFKA-10796
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10796
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Components: unit tests
Affects Versions: 2.6.0
Reporter: Veerendra Singavarapu
Recently entire software industry started realizing how inadvertently
software systems have been incorporating racist terminology. Besides
master-slave and blacklist & whitelist, the usage of BlackHole is being flagged
as racist term. Here is one of many posts @
[https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2008/0723/p09s01-coop.html]
expressing the same.
This bug report to raise the usage of BlackHole in Kafka current code
base. Here are some (but not all) usages of BlackHole term in Kafka:
1. [PluginUtilsTest.java ->
testPluginUrlsWithClasses()|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/7d8e62b3b6d5a4f414211eb9cd5caa0e77d72cfb/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/isolation/PluginUtilsTest.java]
2.
[RecordBatchIterationBenchmark.java|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/4b6d8da9fd5bbc7e90c062c4d2131437183349a0/jmh-benchmarks/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/jmh/record/RecordBatchIterationBenchmark.java]
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