hi all, Do you think we could make a push to make this happen after the 9.0.0 release goes out?
Thanks Wes On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:32 PM Fiona La <fion...@mathworks.com> wrote: > > Thank you Antoine for bringing up the engineering work that is required to > enable this. And thank you Neal for sharing the link to the previous > discussion and creating the umbrella issue/breaking down the tasks in Jira. > > I am happy to work on these subtasks to move the effort forward; I’ll start > with this subtask [1]. > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15692 > > > From: Neal Richardson <neal.p.richard...@gmail.com> > Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 3:38 PM > To: dev <dev@arrow.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Proposal: renaming the 'master' branch to 'main' > Good point Antoine, there is engineering work to be done to allow this. > I've made an umbrella issue [1] and broke out a bunch of subtasks. The idea > is to update our code (mostly CI stuff) to use the default branch, whatever > it happens to be called, and then after that is done we will be able to ask > INFRA to make the change. Those who are interested in seeing this happen > can work on those subtasks, and we can check back once those are done. > > Neal > > [1]: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15689<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15689> > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:46 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > > > Le 14/02/2022 à 21:45, Neal Richardson a écrit : > > > There was discussion of this back in 2020 [1], and the consensus at the > > > time seemed to be to wait and see where git and GitHub would land before > > > making what could be a disruptive change. I support reopening the > > > discussion. > > > > > > It looks like quite a few ASF projects have switched to 'main' by now > > [2], > > > and in order to do so, we'd need a vote/consensus thread here and then > > make > > > an INFRA issue (like [3]). > > > > We also need someone to take responsibility for ensuring that all CI > > jobs and other automation is updated for the change. Presumably that > > could be the proponent. > > > > Regards > > > > Antoine. > > > > > > > > > > Neal > > > > > > > > > [1]: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/hyc6nxn6k2c19g9h4wj4khoysvwomj41<https://lists.apache.org/thread/hyc6nxn6k2c19g9h4wj4khoysvwomj41> > > > [2]: > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20INFRA%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Closed%20AND%20text%20~%20%22main%20branch%22%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC<https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20INFRA%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Closed%20AND%20text%20~%20%22main%20branch%22%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC> > > > [3]: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-21723<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-21723> > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:25 PM Mauricio Vargas <mavarga...@uc.cl.invalid > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > >> +1 > > >> > > >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:24 PM Fiona La <fion...@mathworks.com> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hello all, > > >>> > > >>> In order to be more inclusive and align with the Git< > > >>> https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/<https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname>> > > >>> and GitHub< > > >>> > > >> > > https://github.com/github/renaming#new-repositories-use-main-as-the-default-branch-name<https://github.com/github/renaming#new-repositories-use-main-as-the-default-branch-name> > > >>> > > >>> standards for the default branch of new repositories, I would like to > > >>> propose renaming the ‘master’ branch to ‘main’ in the Arrow project. I > > am > > >>> not sure if there has already been discussion about this, but I tried > > >>> searching the mailing list archives and did not see anyone mention this > > >> yet. > > >>> > > >>> In terms of tooling, GitHub has enabled renaming branches from the web > > >> UI< > > >>> https://github.com/github/renaming<https://github.com/github/renaming>>. > > >>> I’m happy to help with this > > change > > >>> in any way that I can! > > >>> > > >>> Thank you, > > >>> Fiona > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> — > > >> *Mauricio 'Pachá' Vargas Sepúlveda* > > >> Site: pacha.dev > > >> Blog: pacha.dev/blog<http://pacha.dev/blog> > > >> > > > > >
