From: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@foss.arm.com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Rename "master" branch to "main"?
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:22:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd0c1b3b-740f-c7b7-5608-0847ffc580c8@foss.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fcfeed67-d732-e7c7-1f69-ba5fbc036ab2@redhat.com>
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? What's the justification for this other than to break everybody's
workflow and to make life more difficult for everyone who works on other
projects where master is called 'master'?
R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-03 15:22 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 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2020-07-03 15:37 ` Rename "master" branch to "main"? Carlos O'Donell
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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