On 4 May 2019, at 17:47, drago01 wrote:
>
> "The term master copy has a unique meaning in art that predates the
> modern term. In art, a master copy is the process of drawing or
> painting a copy of a another artist's work. It is most common to copy
> the work of a master artist, hence the
On Saturday, May 4, 2019, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 12:32 +0200, drago01 via desktop-devel-list
> wrote:
> > https://dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/master
> >
> > Master / slave relation is just one of the possible meanings but not
> > in the context of master copy
> >
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:44 AM Ask Hjorth Larsen via
desktop-devel-list wrote:
> * The proposed link between master branch and slavery is based on
> arguments that require a dictionary and etymological analysis. But if
> we think master has bad connotations, this is a question of how it
>
Am Fr., 3. Mai 2019 um 14:46 Uhr schrieb Bastien Nocera :
>
> On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 14:07 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote:
> > Je ven, 2019-05-03 je 12:09 +0200, Bastien Nocera skribis:
> > > - Why?
> > >
> > > For the same reasons we'd want to change master/slave references.
> > > Though it
I don't like the direction this thread has taken. It has devolved into
infighting between one another, and as such I think it best to end it here.
People have made their opinions known, and no more minds are likely to be
changed in either direction with the tone of the discussion as it is now.
On
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 4:22 AM, Bastien Nocera
wrote:
The person you quoted is a troll. In fact, I'm not sure there's any
comments on that issue that aren't trolls (apart from the OP and the
repository owner).
Ah OK then, fooled me because he took a such strong plausibly-sincere
stance
On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 12:32 +0200, drago01 via desktop-devel-list
wrote:
> https://dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/master
>
> Master / slave relation is just one of the possible meanings but not
> in the context of master copy
>
> "an original version of something from which copies can be
On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 11:33 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> I don't have a good answer for this. I didn't find an explanation one
> way or the other, but there are uses of "slave copies" that aren't
> "copied from master" in Google, but usually not in
> recording/publishing
> fields.
>
> I just
On Saturday, May 4, 2019, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 01:28 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> > Am Fr., 3. Mai 2019 um 15:36 Uhr schrieb Carmen Bianca Bakker
> > :
> > > Je ven, 2019-05-03 je 14:45 +0200, Bastien Nocera skribis:
> > > > [...]
> > > > If we agree that the "master"
On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 01:28 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> Am Fr., 3. Mai 2019 um 15:36 Uhr schrieb Carmen Bianca Bakker
> :
> > Je ven, 2019-05-03 je 14:45 +0200, Bastien Nocera skribis:
> > > [...]
> > > If we agree that the "master" in the git branch name is the same
> > > "master" that's used
On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 18:31 -0500, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:57 PM, Bastien Nocera
> wrote:
> > Seriously Michael, you’re embarrassing yourself.
>
> I don't feel very embarrassed. Your suggested alternative name,
> "main,"
> is clearly considered to be offensive by
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