From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@foss.arm.com>,
libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Rename "master" branch to "main"?
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 11:37:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c73e9ab-ad07-dc42-d067-89b5b950f727@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd0c1b3b-740f-c7b7-5608-0847ffc580c8@foss.arm.com>
On 7/3/20 11:22 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> On 30/06/2020 19:10, Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha wrote:
>> Community,
>>
>> As we approach the release boundary for 2.32 we come to a natural point
>> where we can rename our development and release branch.
>>
>> Red Hat CTO Chris Wright wrote about this recently:
>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language
>>
>> LWN also wrote about this recently in "Loaded terms in free software":
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/
>>
>> Github is committed to changing the default development branch to "main":
>> https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312
>>
>> There are open requests for Gitlab to adopt "main" as the default branch name:
>> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/220906
>> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/222204
>>
>> My proposal would be to rename the development and current release branch:
>>
>> * master -> main
>
>
> Why?
Do the above links provide enough background regarding the justification?
Are you requesting that I summarize it here?
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-03 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-30 18:10 Carlos O'Donell
2020-06-30 18:35 ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-30 20:16 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-06-30 21:08 ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-30 18:59 ` Florian Weimer
2020-06-30 20:14 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-07-01 9:38 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-03 15:26 ` Richard Earnshaw
2020-07-03 15:33 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-06-30 21:24 ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-30 21:44 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-06-30 22:56 ` Joseph Myers
2020-06-30 22:59 ` DJ Delorie
2020-07-01 7:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-07-01 15:42 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-07-01 12:29 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-07-01 12:49 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-07-01 13:41 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-07-01 16:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-07-01 17:45 ` DJ Delorie
2020-07-01 18:29 ` Paul Eggert
2020-07-01 18:43 ` DJ Delorie
2020-07-02 15:40 ` Zack Weinberg
2020-07-02 16:00 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-02 16:36 ` Joseph Myers
2020-07-02 20:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-07-04 16:43 ` Zack Weinberg
2020-07-02 20:58 ` Michael Kerrisk
2020-07-03 15:20 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-07-04 16:52 ` Pseudoterminal terminology (was Re: Rename "master" branch to "main"?) Zack Weinberg
2020-07-05 14:54 ` J William Piggott
2020-07-06 9:18 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-07-06 9:13 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-07-27 20:32 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-07-27 20:52 ` enh
2020-07-27 20:55 ` enh
2020-07-27 20:59 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-27 22:48 ` enh
2020-07-28 15:26 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-07-28 15:32 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-28 15:44 ` enh
2020-07-28 19:16 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-07-28 19:18 ` enh
2020-07-28 18:47 ` enh
2020-07-28 19:27 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-07-28 19:33 ` enh
2020-07-03 15:22 ` Rename "master" branch to "main"? Richard Earnshaw
2020-07-03 15:37 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2020-07-13 15:14 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-14 9:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-01-14 11:17 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-01-14 17:54 ` Joseph Myers
2021-01-14 20:56 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-14 21:42 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-01-20 13:49 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-21 0:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-01-21 13:30 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-21 13:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-21 17:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-01-21 19:37 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-21 20:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-22 2:32 ` Mike Frysinger
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