On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:14:26 +0100 Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > On 10/03/2021 10.30, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:30:43 +0900 > > Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:10 AM Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev > >> <python-dev@python.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 10.03.2021 3:53, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:47 AM Damian Shaw > >>>> <damian.peter.s...@gmail.com> 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 > > > > And the origin of the English word is the latin noun "magister": > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magister#Latin > > Words change meaning.
Definitely. But if one wants to make a historical argument, it cannot stop at one point in history ;-) In any case, "main" (or hg's "default") is certainly a better generic word for the concept than "master". Whether or not it's worth breaking many pieces of automation out there I'm skeptical about. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/EERCGP4WOJA6NLED7QWECWJLH7KB2WX5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
