For what it's worth, GitHub is changing the default branch name so there's
no argument to be had with them as you suggest. See here [1] for example.


Justin

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53050955

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 10:24 PM Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> If you really think "master" is something you cannot accept, then you might
> argue with github first.
> after all their default git branch name is "master", and github have far
> more user than ActiveMQ.
>
> Bruce Snyder <bruce.sny...@gmail.com> 于2020年7月14日周二 上午11:03写道:
>
> > Someone mentioned use of the terms 'primary' and 'backup' in the private
> > list and I liked that suggestion. I'm not wed to any terms necessarily,
> so
> > if Artemis is already using the terms 'live' and 'backup', I'm ok with
> that
> > in ActiveMQ.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:42 PM Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for kicking this off, Bruce.
> > >
> > > Among other things the Jira [1] says:
> > >
> > > > 'master' and 'slave' should be replaced with the terms 'primary,'
> > > 'secondary,' 'tertiary,' etc.
> > >
> > > I would offer "live" and "backup" as suitable replacements for "master"
> > and
> > > "slave" respectively. The Artemis code and documentation already use
> > "live"
> > > and "backup" in many places although some instances of "master" and
> > "slave"
> > > do exist. Aside from the fact that they're already in use I like the
> fact
> > > that they're relatively short and they clearly capture the underlying
> > > functional semantic. In my opinion the terms "primary," "secondary,"
> etc.
> > > are actually a bit vague and they're certainly quite a bit longer which
> > > isn't a huge deal but it adds up when writing tests, documentation,
> etc.
> > >
> > >
> > > Justin
> > >
> > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-7514
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:04 PM Bruce Snyder <bruce.sny...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Given the racial charged nature of certain terms in today's world, I
> > feel
> > > > that action should be taken to change any such terms in all the
> > ActiveMQ
> > > > projects. Examples include 'master,' 'slave,' 'whitelist' and
> > > 'blacklist'.
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't matter where these terms originated or how long they have
> > been
> > > > used in computer science. I have friends who feel that these terms
> are
> > > > offensive and present a barrier to entry to some. So, I would prefer
> > that
> > > > they no longer be used anywhere in the ActiveMQ project. The simple
> > fact
> > > is
> > > > that changing these terms will not change the functionality of the
> > > > features. Furthermore, compared to many other prominent projects
> > > throughout
> > > > the open source community, ActiveMQ is late to the game on this
> point.
> > > >
> > > > So, I have created the following JIRA Issue to encapsulate this
> work. I
> > > > have not assigned any components simply because this should span all
> > > > sub-projects and documentation:
> > > >
> > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-7514
> > > >
> > > > I have already begun work on this effort in a branch in my own fork
> of
> > > the
> > > > activemq repo. This is to facilitate an eventual pull request to the
> > > > ActiveMQ project. Anyone who would like to join me in this effort
> > please
> > > > reply to this message.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > perl -e 'print
> > > > unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*"
> > );'
> > > > http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/>
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > perl -e 'print
> > unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );'
> > http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/>
> >
>

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