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Avoid master/slave terminology

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34 points atoledano | 3 comments | 10 Sep 18 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.512s | source
1. cpburns2009 ◴[10 Sep 18 21:54 UTC] No.17955551[source]▶
Checks calendar, notices it's early September.

Is contributing to an open source project by any chance an assignment in some college class? Either that or they must be having a really slow couple days over at metaphorical Python HQ where bike-shedding has been taken up to pass the time.

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2. nitwit005 ◴[10 Sep 18 23:04 UTC] No.17955884[source]▶
I'm not sure about contributing, but you can definitely see classes forking repos in github. I'm sure some fraction of them try to get their changes in, even if it's not required.
3. x1798DE ◴[10 Sep 18 23:21 UTC] No.17955958[source]▶
The OP of that bug is one of the most active core developers of CPython and has been for almost a decade...