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GitHub replacing terms to avoid slavery references

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman stated that the company is replacing terms like "master" and "slave" which can be offensive to developers in the black community.

Erdem Yasar by Erdem Yasar
June 15, 2020
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GitHub is showing its support for Black Lives Matter protests by changing certain terms. GitHub CEO announced on Twitter that the company is working on the change. The term, “master” is expected to be replaced with “main/default/primary” and the term “slave” will probably be “secondary” from now on. The change also includes terms such as “blacklist” and “whitelist” which will be referred to as the “allow list” and “deny list” in the near future. GitHub didn’t make any official statement about the terms that will be changed.

Unnecessary references to slavery

Google Chrome developer Una Kravets also tweeted that the Chrome project is working on a similar change and asked GitHub to join the change. The duo will probably drive the change across the tech industry. However, GitHub, nor Google is the first company to work on such change. In 2014 The Drupal project decided to replace the master and slave terms with primary and replica. Google Chrome developer Una Kravets also tweeted,

1. “Main” is shorter! Yay brevity!
2. It’s even easier to remember, tbh
3. If it makes any of my teammates feel an ounce more comfortable, let’s do it!
4. If it prevents even a single black person from feeling more isolated in the tech community, feels like a no brainer to me!

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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