In May 2014, a contributor submitted a pull request that removed references to the problematic terms "master" and "slave" from the Django codebase—at first suggesting "leader" and "follower" as replacements, but settling on "primary" and "replica" shortly thereafter. After a short discussion, the Django core team unanimously accepted the change and merged it. Six days later, Hacker News user "oellegaard" posts the initial pull request to Hacker News. The change which had heretofore passed with nary a peep suddenly attracts a 700+ comment flamewar on GitHub. Timeline of the dispute: