Making open source more inclusive
Red Hat is committed to replacing problematic language in our code, documentation, and web properties. We are beginning with these four terms: master, slave, blacklist, and whitelist. Because of the enormity of this endeavor, these changes will be implemented gradually over several upcoming releases. For more details, see our CTO Chris Wright’s message.
In Identity Management, planned terminology replacements include:
- block list replaces blacklist
- allow list replaces whitelist
- secondary replaces slave
The word master is being replaced with more precise language, depending on the context:
- IdM server replaces IdM master
- CA renewal server replaces CA renewal master
- CRL publisher server replaces CRL master
- multi-supplier replaces multi-master
