While, I agree "master" is not and should not be considered a derogatory term—it has demonstrable valid usage—unfortunately the broad usage of "master/slave" terminology in technology muddies the waters.
If it's not changed, the debate about the continuing to use the term will likely be ongoing. So, despite there being no technical merit to the change, my vote would be +1 to change to main, simply to avoid distraction from inevitable ongoing pushes to change it. On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 08:11 -0800, Carol Willing wrote: > I echo Barry's earlier response. > > To directly address individuals who object to renaming the branch: I > respect your opinion. As I weigh the benefits of keeping the status > quo with the benefits of changing, I see the change as a temporary > inconvenience to update the branch once in order to open the door to > the benefits of conforming to the new industry norm and the > simplification that brings to tooling configuration and > user/contributor documentation. > > Thanks. > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 7:49 AM MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> > wrote: > > On 2021-03-10 15:17, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:23:33 +0000 > > > David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > > >> > > >> Renaming main branches as 'main' is currently predominant > > practice on > > >> GitHub (and more broadly in Free Software communities). Python > > doesn't > > >> need to cling to an old name based on a tired argument that > > political > > >> sensitivity is a creeping plot to destroy old "fun" prejudices > > and > > >> injustices. > > > > > > Uh... Since you're putting "fun" in quotes, I assume this is > > quoting > > > someone else? (who?) > > > > > It's not a quote, it's Irony punctuation (in this case, used to > > indicate > > sarcasm): > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/RJUCHSTSFC6IJPILRPYFQYY437NEOQ4G/ > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/BZQPFFBS6LVJQB23AYRBCUUTMNZG2HGF/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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