“Questions have resurfaced about problematic #language in #opensource communities and code, and specifically the use of terminology like ‘master’ and ‘slave’. […] The #Ansible 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.”
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language