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[diversity] Use inclusive language
As discussed in the TSC meeting on 2020-07-27 and the ASWF #diversity Slack channel, the term "sanity check" should be avoided as it is considered ableist language. I checked the OCIO source code for other terms, but there are just a few ones that should potentially be substituted.
- sanity check: validate (perform check), smoke test, validity / plausibility / soundness check
- sane, insane, sanity: valid, invalid, validity (syntactic?)
- dumb: basic? (draft implementation)
- lame-ass: boring, unpleasant, crude? (support code)
- whitelist: approved list, allow-list (CLA)
- master: main? (Git branch)
1 and 2 are urgent to be renamed in time for v2, as they are used in a public interface. 3, 4 and 5 are trivial to replace. 6 would be a huge task... related: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/63
I also found the terms stupid, crazy and crippled in third-party code (comments/test data), but changing that seems out of scope.
Yes and no... it is kind of a reminder for me to also check other ASWF projects and add something about inclusive language to the documentation.
If you want to keep track of other ASWF projects, the best would be to create a defect in their repo. On the other hand having a disclaimer in the documentation is a great idea.
@Simran-B , we have a volunteer for this issue. I know a lot of this has already been implemented. Please let us know if there is anything left to do or else close the issue. Thx!
