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On Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:56:01 PM UTC-4, Andre Terra wrote:
>
> That is one great suggestion. +1 and as long as nobody -1s it, we're good 
> to go!
> On Aug 12, 2014 11:17 AM, "Robert Grant" <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> 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/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c60
>>> 7a02352ae1
>>>
>>> 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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