Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Replace instances of “whitelist” and “blacklist” in our project, trails, documentation and UI text.
We can replace blacklist with blocklist, blocklisted, or block and whitelist with allowlist, allowlisted, or allow.
In my current workplace they are suggesting us to make this change. Also Google has an exhaustive list to write inclusive documentation: https://developers.google.com/style/inclusive-documentation
There might be few issues while making the change.
1. If these words are part of config property name then all customers needs to make the change.
2. There might be some client-server compatibility if we change server side variables/method names.
Creating this jira just to start the conversation. Please chip in with ideas.