Status

Current state: Under Discussion

Discussion thread:

JIRA:

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Motivation

In a number of places our code uses racially charged terms such as "blacklist" and "whitelist". This is a proposal to replace them with neutral terms such as "blocklist" and "allowlist".

This follows the model other open source projects set forth, such as https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/styleguide/inclusive_code.md#racially-neutral

Public Interfaces

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

List of affected configuration names

metrics.jmx.blacklist

metrics.jmx.blocklist

metrics.jmx.whitelist

metrics.jmx.allowlist

topics.blacklist

topics.blocklist

groups.blacklist

groups.blocklist

blacklist

blocklist

whitelist

allowlist

Proposed Changes

In addition to the public interface changes above, internal APIs and other occurrences in code (e.g. method, variable names, comments, and log messages) will be updated accordingly.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

Existing configuration names will be deprecated but will continue to work for backwards compatibility. 

Rejected Alternatives

N/A