On 7/15/20 4:38 AM, Paul Barker wrote: >> 6. Terminology. The Linux kernel project has put out some recommendations: >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=49decddd39e5f6132ccd7d9fdc3d7c470b0061bb > > I think this is an excellent list. > > Note that it doesn't say anything about the use of 'master' alone > without corresponding 'slave' terminology. GitHub has championed using > 'main' instead of 'master', personally I'd prefer 'dev' as it's more > descriptive of the status but this is how bikeshedding begins. I > recommend we start by adopting the changes in the kernel commit above, > if we want to rename 'master' we can do that in a later phase.
I'm old we should rename "master" to "trunk". Philip > >> >> To start the discussion, can we please get a consensus on item #1? If >> positive, can we then work on whether we agree with the list of items (have I >> forgotten anything, are there things to add to the list, or things to remove >> from the list)? THEN can we please focus on each of the items from the list >> we >> create? > > I recommend we start by having someone submit a patch to add a coding > style document to the oe-core repository. That can be reviewed in the > usual way. We can then proceed to implement the new coding style in a > backwards compatible way over the next few months as development > resources permit. > >> >> I think that would be a more sane approach rather than trying to do >> everything >> at once. >> >> Best regards, >> Trevor >> > > > > > >
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