[Suggestion] Change from white/black to a more inclusive language (allow/block?)

[caiangums]

Thanks for all the work on this library and for making it robust!

Proposal

This issue is being opened as a suggestion to move in a more inclusive terminology, removing the white/black reference and changing it to the allow/block reference (names are just a suggestion).

Impacts and Legacy usage

Understanding legacy projects that are not being maintained and those that can schedule a change to their projects, the suggestion is to inform about the deprecation with a warning while using those terms and already accept the new ones. Thinking about this, there are 2 PRs opened:

• Deprecation Warning from the usage of whitelist/blacklist and support to allowlist/blocklist as default
• Totally removal from white/black terms usage

The first one is not a breaking change, so it is possible to be merged and deployed as the old terms are still supported. The second one could be merged in the future version as it is a breaking change (new major version? 🤔)

Reference

As one of many references for this change, Rails community already changed it with the small difference between block for deny.

[goatandsheep]

that's pretty awesome actually. I like the first one better actually. The second would be a breaking change.

[caiangums]

The idea behind the second PR is exactly a breaking change and possibly, be merged at a future release! 😄

Thanks for accepting! 🙏

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