Status

Current state: Under Discussion Adopted

Discussion thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbe19a71644c85c53de7ea5cfa00e4c90f530332f09758f24709b81f6%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E

JIRA:

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

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In a number of places our code uses racially charged terms such as "blacklist" and "whitelist".  Other open source projects have taken similar actions: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/styleguide/inclusive_code.md#racially-neutral https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/236857/.

This is a proposal to replace them with neutral terms such as "blocklistinclude" and "allowlist".This follows the model other open source projects set forth, such as exclude", which we already use in other places such as Kafka Connect (see https://chromium.googlesourcegithub.com/chromium/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/connect/runtime/src/+/master/styleguide/inclusive_code.md#racially-neutralmain/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/runtime/TopicCreationConfig.java#L33-L42)

Public Interfaces

Affected configurations and command line arguments will be renamed. The old name will continue to be supported for backwards compatibility, but deprecated.

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metrics.jmx.blacklist

metrics.jmx.includeexclude

metrics.jmx.whitelist

metrics.jmx.excludeinclude

topics.blacklist

topics.exclude

groups.blacklist

groups.exclude

config.properties.blacklist

config.properties.exclude

kafka-mirror-maker CLI

--whitelist

--include

blacklist

exclude

whitelist

include

--whitelist

--include

--topic-white-list

--topics-include

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