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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 11:33 +0100, Richard Hughes via desktop-devel-
list wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 06:21, <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> > This should go without saying, but master branches are not a
> > reference
> > to slavery, rather to canonicity. The master branch is the
> > canonical
> > branch, the primary copy.
>
> This is very much my thinking too. I'd agree with this proposal if
> every branch forked from master was called slave/hughsie/whatever but
> in this case the master is clearly referring to the canonical version
> that the others are derived from. The word "master" isn't a bad word,
> and doesn't always mean the opposite of slave.

It's non-gender neutral, which was mentioned earlier in the thread.

See the master/maiden section of:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/Language/NonSexist/vuw.non-sexist-language-guidelines.txt