I would suggest that this a relatively small change that would provide the community with a large return in being more inclusive.
-Jorge On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 9:28:23 AM UTC-7, Tom Carrick wrote: > > This ticket was closed wontfix > <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/31670#ticket> as requiring a > discussion here. > > David Smith mentioned this Tox issue > <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1491> stating it had been closed, > but to me it seems like it hasn't been closed (maybe there's something I > can't see) and apparently a PR would be accepted to add aliases at the > least (this is more recent than the comment on the Django ticket). > > My impetus to bring this up mostly comes from reading this ZDNet article > <https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references/> > > - it seems like Google have already made moves in this direction and GitHub > is also planning to. Usually Django is somewhere near the front for these > types of changes. > > I'm leaning towards renaming the master branch and wherever else we use > that terminology, but I'm less sure about black/whitelist, though right now > it seems more positive than negative. Most arguments against use some kind > of etymological argument, but I don't think debates about historical terms > are as interesting as how they affect people in the here and now. > > I don't think there is an easy answer here, and I open this can of worms > somewhat reluctantly. I do think Luke is correct that we should be > concerned with our credibility if we wrongly change this, but I'm also > worried about our credibility if we don't. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/ee566c2b-28c5-4845-ba94-9f9c4fe5c035o%40googlegroups.com.
