In recent days, and in response to current events outside the tech world, some tech companies have taken to revisiting terminology. It's not something particularly new; there was an IETF draft proposal around the topic from late 2018: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html
One lesson I've taken away from this effort is that changing the default/legacy naming schemes can often help improve naming clarity. ArsTechnica noted this in their write-up of the changes to ZFS, noting how 3 different projects moved away from 'master/slave' terminology in 3 different ways, each providing a more accurate description of the underlying relationship for the use case. With that in mind, and recalling that Apache's policies are that we should recommend people grab our official releases, I'm proposing we change our default branch to be named 'prerelease'. This will help make it clear to anyone cloning our repos that they are using code that has not yet been released. Any thoughts? Votes in favor/opposed? jon
