It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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    2 months ago

    I think very few people mind changing it

    I doubt that. Do you know how many system configurations depend on these keywords? Do you have any idea how many hours of work and system outages this would cause?

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      2 months ago

      I’ve seen a few projects rename during major version upgrades, when everyone has to read the release notes and make changes, anyways.

      Plenty of old deployed systems may continue using master/slave terminology, and of course some projects will stick to that language even decades in the future, but it was once more prevalent than it is now, and that declining trend looks like it will continue.