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

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