It took 7 minutes and 23 seconds to merge this troll PR without any 
discussion and now Meira is suggested to wait 6 months? But what can happen?

вторник, 27 мая 2014 г., 16:14:43 UTC+4 пользователь Meira написал:
>
> As some of you may have notice, a hot discussion is happening in the 
> comments of this pull request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692
> Essentially, this pull request suggests that all occurences of 
> master/slave be replaced with leader/follower. While this is clearly 
> insane, a less jaw-dropping, but still weird change was made in commit 
> https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a02352ae1
>
> Many users in comments to the original pull request agreed that 
> primary/replica is not a good word choice, is vague and misleading. Current 
> django docs compensate for the confusion by referring to "master/slave" in 
> parentheses after mentioning "primary/replica". Of course, this change is 
> nothing more than cosmetical, but it still carries more downsides than 
> upsides.
> Master/slave is* immediately obvious* for the experienced users, and *easily 
> googleable* for the newbies.
>
> I reverted the change and sent a pull request 
> https://github.com/django/django/pull/2720. In the corresponding ticket, 
> I was told to "wait 6 months" and then resubmit the ticket. (
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/22707), and the pull request was 
> closed immediately with an advice to start a discussion on mailing list. So 
> that's what I'm doing here :)
>
> I sum up my personal point of view in this comment: 
> https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44265422
>
> Of course, it'll be hard for the django maintainers to admit their mistake 
> and revert the change. It's always hard to admit mistakes, but it's better 
> than leaving it how it is.
>

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