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Re: Master-Slave terminology Re: [Piuparts-devel] piuparts.d.o stalled?



Hallo Ulrike,

12.02.20 17:46 Ulrike Uhlig:
> On 12.02.20 17:01, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote:
> > In any case, since DSA had to restart everything at UBC, the piuparts
> > slave got restarted as well and it's churning through the backlog.
> > Unfortunately it looks like restarting the slave just eats its logs.
> 
> I'd like to attract your attention to this very fine document:
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html#rfc.section.1.1
> 
> Quoting from there: "Master-slave is an oppressive metaphor that will
> and should never become fully detached from history."
> 
> As an alternative:
> "Several options are suggested here and should be chosen based on the
> pairing that is most clear in context:
> 
> Primary-secondary
> Leader-follower
> Active-standby
> Primary-replica
> Writer-reader
> Coordinator-worker
> Parent-helper
> "

I don't think giving slaves new labels helps them in any way; they will still 
be slaves.

Or do you intend to actually liberate them?
If yes: how? which liberties are they supposed to gain?
If no: then you're actually helping the slave owners hiding their wrongdoings.


Grüße
Timo

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