Commits on Jun 14, 2017

1. cluster: remove deprecated problematic API …

   Content Warning: mental health and self-harm triggers.
   
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   The word "suicide" was used in the cluster API 4 years ago.  This was a
   serious mistake for several reasons.  It was deprecated in version 6,
   and long past time for full removal now.
   
   First, and most important, casual use of words referring to self-harm
   serve to stigmatize mental illness and make it harder for people in our
   community to literally stay alive.  It is impossible to claim that we
   intend to be inclusive and welcoming, and also casually show such
   disrespect for the lives of those in our community.  Some of us have
   lost friends or struggled with mental illness.  Leaving this lying
   around tells us that we are not welcome.
   
   Second, in addition to being just wildly inappropriate on ethical and
   community grounds, the term "suicide" was never even appropriate
   technically!  In context, it refers to a case where a child process
   exits without receiving a fatal signal from the parent process.  The
   "cute" unix joke here is that the process "killed itself".  However, the
   "suicide" flag is set regardless of how the process exited, so in
   addition to being offensive and harmful, it is also misleading and
   incorrect, and has always been so.  (It could've thrown an error, called
   `process.exit()` or received a fatal signal from some other process.)
   
   An open source project is not the place for emotional landmines.  It's
   distracting and misleading at best, and actively harmful at worst.
   There is no justification for it.  The API has already been renamed, and
   it's an obscure surface that is unlikely to ever be used outside of
   core.

   

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