“Questions have resurfaced about problematic in communities and code, and specifically the use of terminology like ‘master’ and ‘slave’. […] The community, for example, has started work to rename its ‘master’ branch to ‘main’ branch and phase out use of ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’ in favor of ‘allowlist’ and ‘denylist’. […] If any person or groups of people feel unwelcome because of the language being used in a community, code or documentation, then the words should change.”
redhat.com/en/blog/making-open

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@tripu Eugen just pushed a change in the Mastodon Git for these same changes.

Whitelist and Blacklist now have new words defining them.

github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/

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