Respectful environment in documentation

[Pragmatist]

 

[onlyoneme]

Your reaction as a “community curator” makes me question whether the Wiim forum is a community I want to have any part in.

Let's start the terrorism of the political correctness.

 

[hgo58]

Let's start the terrorism of the political correctness.

This is a thread about finding alternative words, nothing else.

Some finds it amusing others not. That is fine.

What would you prefer for referencing the primary WiiM device and the devices linked to it?

 

[onlyoneme]

I'm perfectly fine with the master-slave terminology.

 

[harkpabst]

I'm perfectly fine with the master-slave terminology.

I personally agree with this. But not because it goes without saying, or because I think the idea behind the proposal is fundamentally wrong.

Instead, I have looked into the issue and given it my thoughts. In my opinion, the term ‘slave’ is actually harmless in a technical context. The term ‘master’ has different meanings in English anyway.

What I don't agree with at all is the way @hgo58 is being treated here. He is a respectable software developer and shows a degree of responsibility that software developers have not taken in the past (for example, when they ‘defined’ the kilobyte as 1024 bytes in a completely insane way and in contradiction to current standards).

It is perfectly legitimate to deal with the issue of language and discrimination. It may be uncomfortable and you may come to different judgements. But it is certainly no reason to make fun of those who call for this discussion.