Time to decouple from the weighty semantics of human experience and look to nature?
queens/workers/drones/swarms? On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 20:38, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Moving a conversation that was happening on the PMC list to the public > forum. Most of the following is just me recapping the conversation that has > happened so far. > > Some members of the community have been discussing getting rid of the > master/slave nomenclature from Solr. > > While this may require a non-trivial effort, a general consensus so far > seems to be to start this process and switch over incrementally, if a > single change ends up being too big. > > There have been a lot of suggestions around what the new nomenclature might > look like, a few people don’t want to overlap the naming here with what > already exists in SolrCloud i.e. leader/follower. > > Primary/Replica was an option that was suggested based on what other > vendors are moving towards based on Wikipedia: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology) > , however there were concerns around the use of “replica” as that denotes a > very specific concept in SolrCloud. Current terminology clearly > differentiates the use of the traditional replication model from SolrCloud > and reusing the names would make it difficult for that to happen. > > There were similar concerns around using Leader/follower. > > Let’s continue this conversation here while making sure that we converge > without much bike-shedding. > > -Anshum > -- David Cumings AU: +61 498 137 841 US: +1 (929) 291-0801 UK: +44 7725 057 500 <-- Currently in the UK IN: +91 82771 96058 d...@cumings.com
