Hi,

+1 for me too.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:07 AM Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 change it.
>
> On 7/28/20 1:43 PM, Julian Hyde wrote:
> > I am in favor of renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’. To most people it doesn’t
> make any difference. To some, such as potential members currently outside
> the community, it makes the project more welcoming.
> >
> > Very little effort or disruption is required. We’ve identified a
> potential source of friction, so let’s fix it and move on.
> >
> > Julian
> >
> >> On Jul 28, 2020, at 10:31 AM, Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> You can find some background on this discussion at the link below [0].
> >> This is a topic that has come up regularly among D&I folks at the ASF.
> >> The short summary is that the term "master" when referring to a git
> >> branch is a reference to terminology related to slavery. I'm
> >> suggesting main because this seems to be what the developer community
> >> as a whole is gravitating towards. See for example, GitHub's public
> >> roadmap [1] where there are plans to make this change.
> >>
> >> I'm hoping that this discussion can be focused not on whether anyone
> >> has been impacted by such terminology, but how we can move forward. I
> >> personally believe that if a single person feels more welcome to
> >> contribute because of the change, it's a win. I also don't think
> >> making this change needs to be painful. (There are less than 20
> >> relevant references to "master" in the Calcite code.) Apache Mahout
> >> and I believe others have already made this change.
> >>
> >> I think this is a relatively low impact change that can potentially
> >> make us even more welcoming to new contributors, which is a benefit to
> >> us all :)
> >>
> >> [0]
> http://www.kapwing.com/blog/how-to-rename-your-master-branch-to-main-in-git/
> >> [1] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/63
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michael Mior
> >> [email protected]
> >
>

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