On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:50:24 +0200 Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz wrote:
On 09. 06. 20, 14:25, SeongJae Park wrote:
From: SeongJae Park sjpark@amazon.de
This commit recommends the patches to replace 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' with the 'blocklist' and 'allowlist', because the new suggestions are incontrovertible, doesn't make people hurt, and more self-explanatory.
Sorry, but no, it's definitely not.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park sjpark@amazon.de
scripts/spelling.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt index d9cd24cf0d40..ea785568d8b8 100644 --- a/scripts/spelling.txt +++ b/scripts/spelling.txt @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ beter||better betweeen||between bianries||binaries bitmast||bitmask +blacklist||blocklist
Blocklist means a list of blocks here.
How about 'denylist', then?
boardcast||broadcast borad||board boundry||boundary @@ -1495,6 +1496,7 @@ whcih||which whenver||whenever wheter||whether whe||when +whitelist||allowlist
Wut? allowlist I am seeing for the 1st time.
Wouldn't it easy to infer the intention, though?
Some purists, linguists, and politicians are true fellows at times, or at least they think so. This comes in waves and even if they try hard, people won't adopt their nonsense. Like we, Czechs, still call piano by German Klavier, and not břinkoklapka, suggested in 19th century (among many others) by the horny extremists.
Shall we stop using black, white, blue, and other colors only because they relate to skin color of avatars now? I doubt that.
Well, I have no strong opinion on this, but... if some people are really being hurt by use of some terms and we could avoid spread of the term with only little cost, I believe it's worth to make the change.
Thanks, SeongJae Park
thanks,
js suse labs