Hi, Andrew Great thanks for your contributions and suggestions.
I think the community will be absolutely willing to adopt the new terms ASAP, but it may need some time to adopt them in the code base. For the document [1], I will resolve it soon. On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 21:24, Andrew Wetmore <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi: > > I am very glad to see you are moving toward Top Level Project status. > > I have been enjoying reading the documentation, and have made some > suggestions to improve readability in English. > > On this page [1] there is extensive use of the term 'slave' to describe a > non-central server in a distributed system. As you may know, the computer > world is moving away from pairs like "master/slave" and > "whitelist/blacklist" because of their unintended offensive connotations. > > The Infrastructure team has been discussing replacement terms for a couple > of years [2], as we have observed many of the technologies we work with > adopting new terms. I wanted to raise this with you as you might want to > consider adopting a different set of terms to describe the central and > peripheral servers before you have built up so many references, both in the > code and in the documentation, that making a change would become difficult. > > Note: this is a suggestion only. The ASF does not require moving away from > master-slave and similar sets of terms, and many projects continue to use > them. > > Also, feel free to explore the Infra space in the Confluence Wiki. There > are a lot of resources, tips, and examples that may prove useful. > > > [1] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-kvrocks-website/blob/main/docs/replication.md > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Terminology+discussion > > > a > -- > Andrew Wetmore > > Editor-Writer, The Apache Software Foundation <https://apache.org/> -- Best Regards, - Hulk Lin
