Jamie K  🏳️‍🌈

Agent. leader/follower. Passlist/blocklist. Promote change through language.

“passlist / blocklist” — i have been looking for this alternate forever! i am the typical programmer: bad at naming things.

OMG that was awesome. That’s the lady who’s show spawned the Simpsons cartoon, isn’t it? Tracey Ullman? Glad the Brits can still pull off some biting sarcasm.

This is getting absurd. I can *completely* understand the ridicule you're getting on Git. Keep your naive politics out of software development. In fact, you know Git is an insult, right? Shall we change that, to placate a complete non-issue? The far left undermines itself.

The hardest thing in computer science just became another SJW meme. They #resist by being so cringeworthy, demonstrating such poor understanding of words and pragmatic context, submitting code without testing to make a "political" point. It's Owellian Newspeak. Read some books.

Can you say more? Looks like the original person who wrote the package used the wrong term. Jenkins uses master/worker, and that's what it should be.

These words are simple abstractions that have a completely different pragmatic context to that of those dishonestly suggested by idealogues vicariously defending a fictional group of potentially offended people. As a long-time anti-theist, the religious parallels are disturbing

Shouldn't you be taking this complaint up with the Jenkins folks? Or are you suggesting we come up with our own arbitrary terms?

You're being disingenuous, the discussion in the pull request speaks for itself.,

Ok, well, I'm going to say that following the naming of the underlying project is probably the best bet. Thanks for all your other thoughts, though.

I'm concerned about the word "class", it has overloaded connotations and I think it will be offensive to those who have indirectly suffered from a non-liberal, class-based society. Can we change class to be less offensive, like set? I'm also concerned about whiteboard, git, ajax

Even if the change is positive, how would we deal with all the books / software that have been using the terms prior to this? The terms "master" and "slave" would still need to be referenced after the change, so people would find their meanings in the literature / lectures / etc