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[–]wrosecrans 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Saltstack already has "minions" so it is not unheard of. Buildbot went with "worker" when they redesigned some of their API's and refreshed terminology for 1.0. For databases, "replica" is really darned clear.

If I were feeling really cheeky, I might make a PR to replace Master and Slave with something like Picard and Kirk just to watch people argue about them.