Cultural changes to various word usage

[YongBoLiu]

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As more and more care about the culturally insensitive, we need to replace the 'whitelist' to 'allowlist', 'slave' to 'compute' or 'server' in filenames, GUI and logs.

[yboliu@oc8636837557 cacti]$ find . -name "white"
./cli/input_whitelist.php
[yboliu@oc8636837557 cacti]$ grep -Ri slave . -l
./include/vendor/cldr-to-gettext-plural-rules/src/cldr-data/main/en-US/languages.json
./poller_automation.php

To Reproduce

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1. Go to cacti installed directory. Check the filename, and log code in poller_automation.php

2. See the culturally insensitive terminology.

Expected behavior

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No 'whitelist', 'slave' in filenames, GUI and logs.

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[cigamit]

We will discuss this internally. It's not technically a bug though (things aren't broken), its more of GUI/Documentation IMO.

input_whitelist.php - Its more than just the filename, whitelist is used throughout multiple files.
'poller_automation.php' - I would change Master to Main, and Slave to Child.

Any files in vendor are third party and will have to be changed upstream first.

[riversdev0]

I am not a project maintainer. I do not take part in decisions. The following statements are my own, and not those of the Cacti team.

I don't mean to be blunt here, but while 'slave' may not be culturally sensitive, it does accurately define what the role is. <sarcasm>Therefore, instead of renaming it, we should consider deprecating the feature altogether.</sarcasm>

[TheWitness]

I kind of agree, as in western culture anyway, the first slaves were 'white', Slavic's. So, let's do the change. But let's not kid ourselves though, the oppressors have always oppressed. It only matter's, the color, when politics are involved. The Egyptians did not care, nor the Romans, nor any other culture. There is an old saying that history was always written by the victors. Though we may change the words, if we forget the meaning, history will repeat itself.

[netniV]

If we are to undertake such a task, I believe it should be a project in its own right to identify all the areas that this would affect and whilst if that actually involves code changes, these will have to be tested.

If there are only a handful of things that need changing, we can do this. However, I think when it comes to documentation we may have to include a cross reference of previous terminology so that as people migrate forward they can understand what has changed in name only (as no functionality should change).

For the most part, I always referred to Poller 1 as the Main Poller and the rest as Remote Pollers. But others would prefer other terminology, hence the need to identify what there is, and what we will change it to. Once we have that identified, I would suggest posting it for user consumption to see what people feel and get a general consensus.

[bmfmancini]

I would be happy to make any edits to documentation I can do a grep against the repo for any words containing the insensitive wording

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[TheWitness]

@bmfmancini, change anything slave to 'child'. Master is fine. I am the "master" of the house, when the wife is away anyway ;)

[TheWitness]

Stet that: masters and workers.