Replace prejudiced terms with neutral ones

[paulochf]

For many years, computer science (like other segments of the society) used racist terms like black/white list and master/slave. Still, recently, some initiatives have been replacing them with others that don't reference racism or slavery. One example is Github, which deprecated the master branch in favor of main.

Tonight I was reading some links I collected for my thesis project. This repo caught my attention because it seems pretty valuable to what I plan to develop. While reading the docs, I stumbled upon this parameter in Discard transformer, which is the only example I've found in this project that you could improve regarding the topic. Replacing it with exclusion_list should be enough, considering any means the maintainers here would make this graceful transition legacy-wise.

Thanks for reading this suggestion. Congrats on the excellent work, and I'm looking forward to seeing this happening to cite the package in my work.

[MaxHalford]

Hello 👋

Sure, I don't mind changing these terms if you find them offensive. I think we can find a better term than exclusion_list though.

Do you want to make a pull request, or do you want me to do it?

[paulochf]

Hello!

I think it's better you do it. I'm not aware of how you would change such name keeping backward compatibility or even how do you plan to release it. I guess it will require a major version, won't it?

[MaxHalford]

Papertrail: addressed in #766

[paulochf]

I haven't suffered any prejudice myself, but I know people who did. It's life-changing happening in their lives for the worst.

But I sympathize with them, and this kind of action greatly helps ease these feelings, so thank you so much for hearing the suggestion and making a better world!