On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 04:25, 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:
I've been wondering for a long time now when someone would bring this up. Having watched this discussion play out in cpython I definitely do not want to import that kind of furious debate to the SymPy mailing list but I will just say that the use of the word master in this context is not really "agreed" to be politically offensive: there is definitely not a consensus on this. Rather there are several groups of people in these debates: 1. Those who think that the use of the word master in this context is politically offensive. 2. Those who disagree but can see that the word might offend someone who misunderstands its meaning. 3. Those who think that it does not matter much but are happy to go along with group 1 to end the debate. 4. Those who disagree strongly and are not prepared to give an inch to group 1. I think that most people are in group 3 but those people tend not to contribute loudly to the debate which is why you see a lot more of groups 1 and 4 when it comes up. In any case main is becoming widely used and if it is going to be standard practice in some sense then I think it makes sense to follow that. -- Oscar -- 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/CAHVvXxTVcqx%3Dcw7MJDbd5jn8vaGGQsjxT9oBq_27FEH5e9mEkA%40mail.gmail.com.
