On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:10 AM Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10.03.2021 3:53, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:47 AM Damian Shaw > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Does 'master' confuse people? > >> There's a general movement to replace language from common programming > >> practises that derive from, or are associated with, the dehumanization of > >> people. Such as master and slave, as well as whitelist and blacklist. > >> > > Is that *actually* the origin of the term in this context, or is it > > the "master", the pristine, the original from which copies are made? > > There's no "slave" branch anywhere in the git repository. > > It is, actually, the ultimate origin of the term. > > A more immediate origin is the master-slave architecture (the master agent > initiates some operation and slave agents respond to it and/or > carry it out). >
Petr Baudis (who named "master" branch) says its origin is "master recording". So it is unrelated to master-slave. https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 > > Anyway, this is yet another SJW non-issue (countries other than US don't have > a modern history of slavery) so this change is a political > statement rather than has any technical merit. > Yes. If we don't change the name, we need to pay our energy to same discussion every year. It is not productive. Let's change the name and stop further discussion. -- Inada Naoki <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HXSURYDZJPFGPJ6G44RKOE6723BYPCVH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
