Replace oppressive terms with inclusive terms.

[Paul Spooren]

Hi,

While I'm in favor of Daniel's motion and think the political/social 
discussion is important, let's briefly look at it from a technical 
perspective:

The Kernel people agreed literally a year ago[1] on a short list of 
words they prefer to use for new stuff. Since we want our Kernel patches 
to go upstream, we should follow these guidelines.

Sub-projects like LuCI should have this discussion independently.

Sunshine,
Paul

[1]: 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=49decddd39e5f6132ccd7d9fdc3d7c470b0061bb

On 6/22/21 12:49 PM, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Hi Arowa,
>
> thank you very much for your work on this issue!
>
> I am aware that this is an uphill battle as it disrupts routine without
> being technically necessary.
> Many of us will go through episodes where we get annoyed with our own
> habits and constantly want to apologize when we accidentally use terms
> with oppressive heritage (and I must admit this still happens to me quite
> often, it takes more than 'sed' to make these changes in our brains as
> well).
>
> To make the computing world a better place, at least for future
> generations, I sincerely hope efforts like this succeed.
>
> If you have scripts to easily detect suppressive language in a code
> repository and suggest meaningful replacements, like the ones in this
> patch series, I would be happy if you could share them with me so that I
> can suggest similar changes for openwrt.git. Pre-built 'sed' scripts (and
> perhaps 'coccinelle'[1] patches when we work on code) would of course be
> great for this purpose, as it would reduce the risk of breaking something
> (and also make it easier and guarantee consistency)
>
> With kind regards
>
>
> Daniel
>
> [1]: https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 02:29:01PM -0700, Arowa Suliman wrote:
>> As part of using inclusive language in code, submitting the following
>> patches to replace some of the instances of oppressive words with
>> inclusive terms.
>> In-Reply-To:
>>
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