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

[Carlos Soriano <csoriano gnome org>]

Hi,

IMHO an smart stance to take in this topic is to focus on the actual impact in practice that this change has, and otherwise just do it if a reasonable amount of people and outside projects think there is a valid reason to do it - we don't need to understand if the reasons are fully valid or not, because that's hard to evaluate.

In practical terms, as long as someone takes care of fixing the technological part I don't see an issue, and I understand that you need to have some project as a test, so as long as this keeps to Geary only it seems ok to me.

In terms of getting used to it, it's a matter of remembering just one more name.

For making this change properly, I have some questions:

- Is there a possibility to redirect master to any other name somehow?

- If Git upstream documentation is not updated, can we hold an organization wide change until that happens?

- Is there a way to "push to the main branch" that doesn't involve a name such as master or mainline?

- Is there some consensus on the word replacement apart of the links Daniel provided? My feeling is that we should wait until there is a common replacement among projects outside of GNOME.

Also, I think we should try to come with a name we are all comfortable and use only that one. A discourse topic or a different mail thread just for that would be helpful.

Cheers

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 13:26, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:04 PM Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
>
> FWIW, "master copy" has quite a lot of synonyms that are used in other
> languages and can be reused here, such as "copy zero", "original
> (copy)", or in some uses "standard copy".

"Branch zero" has a nice ring to it. (I think it's too cryptic to be
actually used, but gosh does it sound cool!)
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