Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2020 08:43:14 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v3] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology |
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 06:39:49 +0200, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:02:24AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:14:27 +0200, > > Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > > +Recommended replacements for 'blacklist/whitelist' are: > > > + 'denylist / allowlist' > > > + 'blocklist / passlist' > > > > I started looking through the tree now and noticed there are lots of > > patterns like "whitelisted" or "blacklisted". How can the words fit > > for those? Actually, there are two cases like: > > > > - Foo is blacklisted > > - Allow to load the non-whitelisted cards > > > > Currently I'm replacing the former with "Foo is in denylist", but not > > sure about the latter case. I thought Kees mentioned about this, but > > don't remember the proposal... > > I find that "blocklist" works well as a verb: "foo is blocklisted", > "blocklist foo", or in some cases just "block foo" or "deny foo". For > the second case, phrasings like "allow loading non-safelisted cards" or > "allow loading cards not on the passlist" seem clear.
Yes, that makes sense. I have wished some simple replacement with sed, but it seems that it'd be better to rephrase such texts in anyway.
thanks,
Takashi
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