I'd really, really like it if we were to stop saying a UI element is "disabled" and say "differently abled".
Thanks On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:14:43 UTC+2, Meira wrote: > > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/d01d6237-eb4d-4841-8f6c-646d69c96291%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
