Avoid master/slave terminology

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BPO	34605
Nosy	@gvanrossum, @rhettinger, @terryjreedy, @pitrou, @vstinner, @larryhastings, @ericvsmith, @giampaolo, @stevendaprano, @berkerpeksag, @serhiy-storchaka, @ammaraskar, @Mariatta, @csabella, @miss-islington, @tirkarthi
PRs	bpo-34605, libregrtest: Avoid master/slave terms #9099 bpo-34605, pty: Avoid master/slave terms #9100 bpo-34605: Avoid master/slave terms #9101 bpo-34605: childs => children #9102 bpo-34605: Replace "pliant children" with "helpers" #9195 [3.7] bpo-34279: Synchronize regrtest with master #10800 [3.6] [3.7] bpo-34279: Synchronize regrtest with master (GH-10800) #10802

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title = 'Avoid master/slave terminology'
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[vstinner]

For diversity reasons, it would be nice to try to avoid "master" and "slave" terminology which can be associated to slavery.

For more context, see:

• https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185
• https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2248
• #22667 replaced occurrences of master/slave terminology with leader/follower django/django#2692