Replace terms “Master” and “Slave” for databases

The whole of computing is riddled with this. "Client" and "server" have troubling implications. "Kill" is pretty dubious as well. "Faults" and "errors" are shockingly negative - we should call them "misunderstandings". And "invalid" has been deprecated for a while - "differently abled" is the correct term nowadays.

Obviously our lexicon is tragically outdated and requires an overhaul.

How about no? the meaning of a word depends on the context. If you are pissed off because I use the right word in the right context, you are the problem, not me. Master/Slave is a perfectly valid nomenclature in the context of computer science.

edit: it looks like the individual who opened the issue on redis bug tracker is a well known "professional offended" who has never contributed to redis in anyways.

What's next, getting rid of unzip, expand, explode?

In the github discussion I saw the suggested alternative of "leader" and "follower". And it is very interesting to see that the current translated Chinese terminology of Master-Slave relationship in databases is "主从关系", where "主" means Main, "从" means Follow. So there is no connotation of slavery in the translated concept at all. I wonder how other localization works in this case.

I cannot stand political correctness run amok...

I doubt many Slavic people are bothered.