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Re: technical terms overhaul




On 20/6/20 6:28 am, Marco Möller wrote:
On 19.06.20 21:14, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
On the danger of starting a flame war ...
thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian

instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms:
"allowlist" and "rejectlist"
instead of (for example on disk drives) "master" and "slave" I like to propose
the terms:
"lead" and "lag" which are e.g. used when electrically managing two pumps
working on the same hydraulic circuit.

What do you think?

All the best
Eike
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This is a very good choice of names. I like it especially because it is also not speaking about good or bad, or passed and failed, which would be a technical classification, but simply it pronounces well what it is all about: accepted or banned, wished or not wished. So, I like much "allowlist" and "rejectlist", for me as a not native english speaker it becomes perfectly clear what is meant and what it is not meant to inlcude (it is nicely not including any statement about the quality of the items in the list).
Thanks al lot for the proposal! Marco.


If you are not a native English speaker then how do you know what allow and reject mean?

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