RFC: Conscious language in the Binutils

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hi Nick.

>   [I am writing this email with my Red Hat on, rather than my FSF hat].
>
>   Inside Red Hat there is an initiative to address some of the language
>   used in open source projects, making it more inclusive:
>   
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language
>
>   This includes addressing terms used in source code, as well as
>   documentation and so on.  I would like to offer to make such changes
>   to the binutils sources.  (See for example the attached patch which
>   addresses uses of blacklist/whitelist and master/slave).  These
>   changes would only cover source code maintained by the GNU Binutils
>   project itself.  Imported sources, eg libiberty, config and zlib,
>   would not be changed unless these changes happen upstream first.
>
>   Before making any alterations however I wanted to see if there were
>   any comments, concerns or issues regarding this proposal.  Does anyone
>   have anything that they wish to say ?

The blog post you link seems to describe an internal Red Hat policy in
rather vague terms.

I oppose adopting such a policy for the overall GNU binutils project.