Hi, In general I agree about speech policing - but in this particular case - 'main' is the default in Git now, it is becoming the standard everywhere else - and it's a perfectly reasonable renaming - "main" is a good word for the - er - main branch - at least as good as "master" - semantically.
Cheers, Matthew On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 6:30 AM Peter Stahlecker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perfect!! > This political correctness of the language, which has become a big issue in > my mother tongue, German, only serves to distract from the real problems. > > On Tue 18. Jul 2023 at 12:14, Hanspeter “Hanspi” Schmid > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Somehow I find this very disturbing. Why does everyone seem to be so sure >> that master must be understood (and therefore shunned) as half of >> master-slave instead of half of master-apprentice or master-bachelor or >> master-junior? Am I from now on forbidden to master a technique? Should I >> stop listening to master violinists? Do we have to abandon or rename Master >> programs after the Bachelor programs? >> >> I totally agree that terms like 'master-slave flip-flop' must be changed. >> However, there have never been slave branches on github, and making this >> change totally means bringing the present political upheavalsof mainly one >> big country into a international, technical context where it really does not >> belong. >> >> So yes, I am totally opposed to doing this. As long as you can still get a >> Master degree at a single American university, I do not even consider one >> second of the SymPy's development team well spent on this issue. >> [email protected] schrieb am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2023 um 06:26:09 UTC+2: >>> >>> Somehow it does not look like the most urgent problem to me - but then >>> again I am old, white and male. 😊 >>> >>> On Tue 18. Jul 2023 at 11:23, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm not opposed to doing this. Most other projects have also done it, >>>> so it would be inline with that. It also has the advantage that "main" >>>> is a much clearer term to newbies than "master". >>>> >>>> But note that this is not a trivial thing to do, which is why it >>>> hasn't happened yet. It's not as simple as just renaming the branch. >>>> We also have to fix all the references to "master" everywhere, >>>> including making sure that all our automation and release scripts >>>> still work. >>>> >>>> There's also an unfortunate downside of doing this, which is that >>>> anyone who already has a clone of the repo and is using "git checkout >>>> master; git pull" will have their workflows broken when master stops >>>> being updated. I don't know if there's a clean way we can do anything >>>> about that. >>>> >>>> Aaron Meurer >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 9:25 PM Sangyub Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > I think that github decided to do that in 2020. >>>> > And the main reason to do this is that 'master' is agreed to be >>>> > politically offensive terminology: >>>> > >>>> > Rename offensive terminology (master) - Simon Pieters (kernel.org) >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> > Groups "sympy" group. >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> > an email to [email protected]. >>>> > To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/8037a96f-4d4c-48ca-9139-56bec7f5217en%40googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "sympy" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2BXo0N89GQb%2BzHHjCSW%3DA-gkmMsnDEOi0ene7r%3DfOXBhQ%40mail.gmail.com. >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Peter Stahlecker >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/60227193-d9cf-4522-a4b8-863c484add13n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > Best regards, > > Peter Stahlecker > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CABKqA0aN6P32vXQzJ7zBE%2B96CQZWp5oJV8xMJ4dLQfco%2BjbkzQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAH6Pt5roiAiVtnep-Rk24YDHCi-1Ja0fFyjn0Fz60CeVK_QK1g%40mail.gmail.com.
