We'll have to agree to disagree. To me it is clearly racially charged language and you are cherry picking your sources. Here's a well researched and documented article from a medical journal on the topic with expert citations: https://jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/article/view/490 The abstract says it very well: "This commentary addresses the widespread use of racist language in discussions concerning predatory publishing. Examples include terminology such as blacklists, whitelists, and black sheep. The use of such terms does not merely reflect a racist culture, but also serves to legitimize and perpetuate it."
I am proud to say I voted for this issue and support it as social issue, not a political issue. However, I didn't do so unilaterally because that's not how projects at Apache work. When the time comes for a 4.0 release, we, meaning the project management commitment, will follow our well documented voting procedures to create and approve a release announcement. I have no interest in causing strife but if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, I will call it a duck. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:49 AM Rupert Gallagher <r...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > racially-charged nature of blacklist > > There is no such thing. > > Black list originates from black book, that is a book with white pages and > black cover, with black ink, where sins are listed in haven for you to be > judged upon. > > On the colour of the cover, it is black because that's how old leather > turns out to be. > > On the colour of ink, try writing white ink on black paper if you can... > > Stop using SA to push your political agenda. When v4 comes out, do not > dare writing that *we* decided to *change* blacklist into blocklist because > of the "racially-charged nature" of it, because it is not, because we said > so, and because you are forcing it. > > Have the courage to put your own name under your own decision, do not > blame us for it. > > >
