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Leader/Follower is actually something entirely different, but the linked chinese document talks about a master/client approach.

Sadly, in the past years, due to some political movements, the term "master/slave" has been declared problematic, and GitHub actively warns that projects using such language can and will be excluded from the service.

There have been previous discussions about this on HN.

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Wow, that's very interesting. I thought GitHub delegates moderation to the repo owners.

There was actually a huge debate about this on Reddit caused by Swift merging a rename change PR into master. The Swift team was so excited about the change for some reason that they didn't even run tests before the merge...

Do you have a link for that? I don't follow swift development and I'm unsure what they actually changed.

Rename of what?

Changing variable names using master/slave to leader/follower.

Here's my comment from the thread:

https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/3veu2t/comment...

The rest of the discussion is a good read too.

As I mentioned in other subthreads (sadly I can’t edit the original comment anymore, so I have to duplicate content), there is this very famous example of several repos getting banned, and another getting threatened to be banned, for using the word "retard": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118

Github says that? Can you share a link? I thought moderation is up to users unless someone is actually abusing the service.

Read this case, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118

Where has Github warned this? I can't find any official documentation about this.

I can’t find the specific case of "master/slave", but you can find a similar case on "retard" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118

Are these conceptually/semantically different from master/worker?

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