with all the recent commotion also in the tech world, i'm revisiting the
idea to deprecate 'slave' terminology ('master' is much less
problematic, but would probably go as well for symmetry).
i never really liked it anyway once i started to think about it
(obviously, quite a while after i introduced it ...), because it
suggests a strict hierarchy that isn't really there, as bi-directional
synchronization is supported.
the problem is that this equally applies to many potential replacements,
like 'replica'. maybe 'clone' is better, as it's more easily associated
with having its own life, and git already established the term. but what
to put opposite of it? 'origin' again suggests directionality quite
strongly.
similarly, 'primary' vs 'secondary' sounds way too hierarchical.
so i came up with just 'first' and 'second'. the problem is that these
aren't nouns, so one has to be more verbose to not make it awkward.
'one' and 'two' would also be weird without context.
then i thought of 'upstream' and 'downstream', but i don't like the long
common part, and these are also directions, not only locations, so
somewhat confusing.
so i thought more about polar opposites, and came up with 'north' and
'south'. short, "non-judgmental", and even has a vague positional
association with how the typical server-client setup would be typically
visualized. otoh, it seems really out of place and therefore kinda
silly.
so, what does everyone else think? bikeshedding season is open! :-D
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