This idea is not a Drupal *core* idea, strictly speaking, but it's a global testing policy idea that could likely use attention from the same sorts of folks who review these core ideas.
Background
There's been a movement recently in Drupal and in other software projects to move towards more inclusive language, for example, changing 'Master' branches to 'Main', and changing 'whitelist/blacklist' to 'allowlist/blocklist' and things of that nature.
Problem
The change to inclusive language is a good one, and for most projects it is relatively low effort, but many folks aren't necessarily aware of these issues in order to change them.
Proposed resolution
There are now automated 'inclusivity linting' tools that are available to catch this kind of language. If we can provide these as part of Drupal's automated testing defaults(even if their output produces 'warnings' rather than 'failures') this would be a good step in helping the community make these easy fixes.
@michaelemeyers →
and
@fabianfranz →
from Tag1 have suggested we research libraries like woke and inclusivelint, which are both capable of producing output similar to the following:
% github-scanner lint .
config/sync/core.entity_view_display.node.custom_page.default.yml:61:7: undesirable term `blacklisted` found (terminology; phrase "black listed")
blacklisted_blocks: { }
^^^^^^^^^^^
config/sync/core.entity_view_display.node.custom_page.default.yml:62:7: undesirable term `whitelisted` found (terminology; phrase "white listed")
whitelisted_blocks: { }
^^^^^^^^^^^
l10n/drupal-9.3.5.es.po:26730:60: undesirable term `whitelist` found (terminology; phrase "white list")
"restrictions are in effect and /dev/urandom is not on the whitelist. "
^^^^^^^^^
l10n/drupal-9.3.5.fr.po:26920:60: undesirable term `whitelist` found (terminology; phrase "white list")
"restrictions are in effect and /dev/urandom is not on the whitelist. "
^^^^^^^^^
l10n/paragraphs-8.x-1.12.es.po:165:8: undesirable term `Master` found (terminology; string "master")
msgid "Master"
^^^^^^
l10n/paragraphs-8.x-1.12.fr.po:167:8: undesirable term `Master` found (terminology; string "master")
msgid "Master"
^^^^^^
2022/04/04 13:32:00 main.go:908: 6 errors found scanning .
Process and where to find it
Not yet defined.
Proposal roadmap
Not yet defined.
Not in scope
Automated patches/MRs.
Team and resources
Not yet defined.
Signoffs
TBD
Signoffs needed
TBD
Signoffs given
TBD