[FLINK-18209] Replace "charged" words in the Flink codebase.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-minor pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marta Paes Moreira
• Created: 09/Jun/20 08:54
• Updated: 28/Dec/21 10:39

Description

The Flink codebase still makes use of "charged" words that are considered outdated and have a negative connotation. In particular, this is the number of occurrences of such words:

"Master": 1366

"Slave": 229
 
"Whitelist": 23
 
"Blacklist": 28
 
I'd like to propose that we rethink the use of these words [1] and consider existing alternatives that other open source projects are also adopting. Replacing all occurrences is non-trivial in many cases and may involve breaking-changes, though, so one idea would be to break this effort down into different phases that can be tackled over time, depending on the impact of the required changes.

[1] https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-guide-to-nomenclature-selection/

Issue Links

• is related to: FLINK-6559 Rename 'slaves' to 'workers'
• relates to: FLINK-18377 Rename "Flink Master" back to JobManager in documentation
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12667

Sub-Tasks

• Replace "slave" file name with "workers": Closed