svn commit: r362444 - head/sbin/dump

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Sat Jun 20 21:24:51 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.

Agreed, but can we stop the apparent haste to make changes?

> Warner
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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