[Spice-devel] Identifying and removing potentially divisive language

[Julien Rope]

I agree with the approach.
I actually ran the same "grep" command after the talk and was happy to find
there should not be too much work involved to do it :-)


Side note : I've always thought SVN's "trunk" was nice as it fits with the
idea of "branches" growing out of it. But there is a discussion going on at
Gitlab [1] that shows "main" is probably better.


[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/221164





Le mer. 1 juil. 2020 à 16:15, Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Kevin Pouget wrote:
> > Hello SPICE community,
> >
> > following Chris Wright (Red Hat CTO) blog post on "Making open
> > source more inclusive by eradicating problematic language" [1],
> > I would like to suggest that we have a look at SPICE source
> > code to find out if/where such language is used and how to
> > remove it.
> >
> > To illustrate the motivations of this move, consider the phrase
> > "the final solution". I am quite sure you would agree that
> > these words cannot be used inside a project. You would agree
> > because the WWII events are still in minds and not so ancient
> > yet.  Git "master", or the "master/slave" pattern may not
> > trigger similar thoughts if your ancestors didn't suffer
> > slavery; "whitelist/blacklist" neither, if the color of your
> > skin doesn't get you into trouble (white=allow, black=deny).
> > Overall, I would advise, when thinking about these questions,
> > not to forget on which side your history/country/skin
> > color/sexual orientation sits you. If it's the oppressor side,
> > you're not at the right place to say it's not relevant.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I had a quick `grep` look at SPICE code base, searching for
> > `blacklist/whitelist/slave` and I could only find very few
> > occurrences of these words, which is nice. Can you find other
> > problem words?
> >
> > `master` is used for git default's branch, but not much
> > elsewhere. Let's discuss if we could get rid of this one, for
> > instance changing it to `main` (just a suggestion). I don't
> > think that it can break that many things (only the CI comes to
> > my mind, where the `master` branch may be treated differently)
> > as git name default branch's name is often omitted in the usual
> > workflows.
> >
> > Please share your thoughts about this
>
> Not a native english speaker but I've read a few discussions
> around the user of master as git as in master copy instead of
> master/slave. Another examples of the use of master from native
> speakers included master as in school teacher or someone that is
> in charge of something (the offense being where the subject of
> control is the slave).
>
> Still, I don't really mind to changing it to main, even more if
> there are people that feel this can really be offensive in some
> way..
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Julien ROPÉ

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