Name changes of popular OSS projects feels contentious, but like anything built on language it's inherently political and full of bias. As with anything, it's worth striving to improve things where we can. There are a few great examples including:
The irony that rather than engaging in the conversation and attempting to understand where people are coming from, bbatsov wrote a code of conduct then enforced it is not lost on me.
1. FactoryGirl -> FactoryBot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921
2. Whitelist -> Allowlist API in Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/33677
The irony that rather than engaging in the conversation and attempting to understand where people are coming from, bbatsov wrote a code of conduct then enforced it is not lost on me.
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