svn commit: r362444 - head/sbin/dump

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Jun 20 21:03:28 UTC 2020


On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:19 PM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 08:12:40PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> > Thanks for backing this out, Warner.
>
> I also appreciate it.
>

You bet. I had enough people send me dispassionate context around to
realize that minion was no longer a hill worth dying on. While it wasn't
problematic in the way slave was, it had other issues my pre-commit
research completely was blind to...


> > I'd like to change "slave" to "worker" here (which I think is a
> reasonably
> > neutral and entirely inoffensive term), and in the process perhaps make
> some
> > associated grammatical changes (since "enworker" is dubious at best).
> >
> > To avoid causing any further issues: If anyone objects to the word
> "worker"
> > please let me know in the next ~48 hours.  I think there's enough people
> > reading svn-src-all that I can anticipate feedback now if anyone will
> care
> > deeply about that word.
>
> Please, just open a DR for that so all interested parties can participate
> and fine-tune particular grammar and language choices.  Also, r362447
> should be reverted on the same grounds as r362422.
>

I'd have rather r362447 go through review as well, but really, it's fine
enough for now that it's not worth the churn to back it out.

Warner


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