I agree with Bernd. I believe also that change is natural so eventually one needs to evolve the terminology or create a complete new product. To evolve the terminology one can write a page in the ref guide for translating it and over time adapt it in Solr etc.
> Am 24.06.2020 um 13:30 schrieb Bernd Fehling <bernd.fehl...@uni-bielefeld.de>: > > I'm following this thread now for a while and I can understand > the wish to change some naming/wording/speech in one or the other > programs but I always get back to the one question: > "Is it the weapon which kills people or the hand controlled by > the mind which fires the weapon?" > > The thread started with slave - slavery, then turned over to master > and followed by leader (for me as a german... you know). > What will come next? > > And more over, we now discuss about changes in the source code and > due to this there need to be changes to the documentation. > What about the books people wrote about this programs and source code, > should we force this authors to rewrite their books? > May be we should file a request to all web search engines to reject > all stored content about these "banned" words? > And contact all web hosters about providing bad content. > > To sum things up, within my 40 years of computer science and writing > programs I have never had a nanosecond any thoughts about words > like master, slave, leader, ... other than thinking about computers > and programming. > > Just my 2 cents. > > For what it is worth, I tend to guide/follower if there "must be" any changes. > > Bernd
