Supervisor: Mark Waite <>
Announced end of poll: July 29, 2020 14:00 UTC
Actual time poll closed:
This is a public poll.
Actual votes cast: 138
Number of winning choices:
Condorcet completion rule:    (What is this?)
Minimax
Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD
CIVS Ranked Pairs
MAM
Condorcet-IRV

Poll description

The Jenkins community is continuing its process of replacing offensive terminology with clearer and more accurate terminology. The term "slave" was deprecated in 2016 to be replaced by "agent".

This poll solicits your preferences for the replacement term for "master" as a word or phrase to describe the Jenkins application that provides the web user interface and distributes work to agents.

Refer to the Jenkins Developers mailing list thread for more information

Result

1. Controller  (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)
2. Manager  loses to Controller by 95–35
3. Coordinator  loses to Controller by 98–37, loses to Manager by 69–59
4. Primary  loses to Controller by 90–44, loses to Coordinator by 66–63
5. Main  loses to Controller by 97–36, loses to Primary by 68–47
6. Director  loses to Controller by 110–21, loses to Main by 70–56
7. Leader  loses to Controller by 106–24, loses to Director by 71–46
8. Executive  loses to Controller by 116–15, loses to Leader by 65–34

For simplicity, some details of the poll result are not shown.  

Result details

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1. Controller   -95 98 90 97 110 106 116
2. Manager   35 -69 67 69 82 85 104
3. Coordinator   37 59 -66 71 78 85 103
4. Primary   44 63 63 -68 80 79 91
5. Main   36 56 58 47 -70 67 83
6. Director   21 39 45 51 56 -71 91
7. Leader   24 31 38 41 47 46 -65
8. Executive   15 13 19 27 28 22 34 -

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