Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-13 Thread synflower--- via isync-devel
How about male / female? ...sorry ... On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:35:19PM -0700, MGC wrote: 'remote/local' sounds good to me. -- /gc On Jul 14 06:57 AM, Roman Bolshakov wrote: I'm not a fan of the renaming movement solely for sake of virtual signalling but here it makes sense. - remote / lo

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-13 Thread MGC
'remote/local' sounds good to me. -- /gc On Jul 14 06:57 AM, Roman Bolshakov wrote: I'm not a fan of the renaming movement solely for sake of virtual signalling but here it makes sense. - remote / local Better carries the semantics and it’s short. I have such piece of config for all my mailbo

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-13 Thread Roman Bolshakov
I'm not a fan of the renaming movement solely for sake of virtual signalling but here it makes sense. - remote / local Better carries the semantics and it’s short. I have such piece of config for all my mailboxes since I started using mbsync: [...] Channel work Master :work-remote: Slave :work-lo

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-13 Thread Mehul Sanghvi
> On Jul 13, 2020, at 15:06 , Oswald Buddenhagen > wrote: > > 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 anywa

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-13 Thread David Ringo
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:07 PM Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > 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. >

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-13 Thread Evgeniy Berdnikov
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 09:06:22PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > 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

going abolitionist

2020-07-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
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 intr