-
-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 79.1k
New issue
Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.
By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.
Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account
[RFC] Remove blacklist and other oppressive terminology #31064
Comments
this was already on our planned list of changes (following the change from |
Did not find the issue for this. So can i close this? |
Leave it open. it's now cross-referenced from #31066 so once that's merged, it will auto-close this issue as well. And no, there wasn't an open issue here about it ... it was an internal list of planned changes the team was discussing. So no worries...this issue here just gave me a good "hook" to just go ahead and do my PR :) |
I just stumbled opon the new Bootstrap 5 alpha page and saw some words that could be improved to a more natural / tech specific wording, e.g. the
allowlist
andblocklist
instead ofwhitelist
andblacklist
.There are many projects that try to ban oppressive words from their code. This could be a great chance when releasing BS5
Refs: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html, https://localheinz.com/blog/2020/06/12/black-lives-matter/
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: