Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

[Felipe Borges <felipeborges gnome org>]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 8:54 AM Daniel Mustieles García via
desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Please stop lying about changes in Django, Rust or Python branches' names... they stil use «master» for the 
> main branch. Here are the changes those projects are discussing:
>
> Djando: db configuration. The comments in the issue you've mentioned are an interesting reading... did you 
> read them?
> Rust: Like Djando, it's a change in source code, not in branch name
> Python: Again... read above
>
> So no, your arguments are not valid and your change in the name of the branch have caused problems in 
> Damned Lies, automated scripts, etc.
>
> Please revert the change, it makes no sense to keep this discussion alive.

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On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:21 AM Daniel Mustieles García via
desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> Do we need to remember you again the incovenients of your change? Damned Lies is broken in Geary's module 
> (cherry-pick doesn't work), developers and contributors get confused if modules name their master branches 
> to whatever maintainers decide, you have broken GNOME's standard naming for development branches, your 
> arguments about Django, Rust, Linux Kernel are false, you've done this change without asking the community, 
> which is clearly against it... do you want more reasons?

Daniel, could you please be more careful about your wording here? This
should be a civil conversation between colleagues and your choice of
words can sound slightly aggressive to some people.