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  2. JENKINS-29522

Rename master/slave to manager/worker

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      How receptive would the jenkins community be to replacing the master/slave terminology? Django and drupal have already made such a switch – https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692, https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 – and I think their reasoning applies to Jenkins as well.

      (One could bikeshed indefinitely on replacement terms, and I'm not wedded to manager/worker in any way.)

      Changing the code is probably the easier part (though not trivial); there's also lots of documentation that would need to change, not all of it written/maintained by the jenkins project. I think the proejct is worth it even if there is a long tail of references to master/slave references that stick around in docs.

          [JENKINS-29522] Rename master/slave to manager/worker

          Craig Silverstein created issue -
          Daniel Beck made changes -
          Resolution New: Duplicate [ 3 ]
          Status Original: Open [ 1 ] New: Resolved [ 5 ]
          Daniel Beck made changes -
          Link New: This issue duplicates JENKINS-27268 [ JENKINS-27268 ]
          Kohsuke Kawaguchi made changes -
          Link New: This issue is related to JENKINS-31095 [ JENKINS-31095 ]
          R. Tyler Croy made changes -
          Workflow Original: JNJira [ 164399 ] New: JNJira + In-Review [ 197493 ]

          Craig Silverstein added a comment -

          Seems like it's been resolved!

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          Yashaswini TR added a comment -

          Hi Team,

          I need a help I need to change a Jnlp file of a slave. I mean in a slave jnlp file consists a master server name instead of that i need to add a master dns name and launch that slave agent.

          Im not able to do that, Can anyone please do help with that

          Yashaswini TR added a comment - Hi Team, I need a help I need to change a Jnlp file of a slave. I mean in a slave jnlp file consists a master server name instead of that i need to add a master dns name and launch that slave agent. Im not able to do that, Can anyone please do help with that

          Topher Perusse added a comment -

          I would argue that this is not a duplicate of JENKINS-27268 - the term "master" really should be removed and I don't see any other stories reflecting this work. Can someone point to the story for that? Or re-open this for that work?

          Topher Perusse added a comment - I would argue that this is not a duplicate of JENKINS-27268 - the term "master" really should be removed and I don't see any other stories reflecting this work. Can someone point to the story for that? Or re-open this for that work?

          Mark Waite added a comment - - edited

          topher thanks for your interest. You're welcome to reopen this issue for that work or not.

          Reopening a ticket is much less likely to make progress on the work than opening a pull request to help with the issue. Some examples of pull requests that have moved the terminology work forward include:

          • Security advisories updated - PR-3632
          • Blog posts updated - PR-3678
          • Japanese references to slave replaced with agent - PR-4863
          • French references to slave replaced with agent - PR-4801
          • Replace some English references to slave with agent - PR-4777

          More details on the terminology changes are available from Alex Earl's Continuous Delivery Foundation blog post.

          Mark Waite added a comment - - edited topher thanks for your interest. You're welcome to reopen this issue for that work or not. Reopening a ticket is much less likely to make progress on the work than opening a pull request to help with the issue. Some examples of pull requests that have moved the terminology work forward include: Security advisories updated - PR-3632 Blog posts updated - PR-3678 Japanese references to slave replaced with agent - PR-4863 French references to slave replaced with agent - PR-4801 Replace some English references to slave with agent - PR-4777 More details on the terminology changes are available from Alex Earl's Continuous Delivery Foundation blog post .

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