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Re:GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row by DangitBobby on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:43PM (#23532729)
leader/follower, or commander/soldier could work. Maybe king/pawn or queen/pawn if we really want to uphold the same kind of relationship as slave/master.
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Re:GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row by vzidex on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:17AM (#23540146)
Yup, after some thinking I've come to quite like commander/worker.
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