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

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 14:40, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:45 PM Carlos Soriano <csoriano gnome org> 
> wrote:
> > >  For making this change properly, I have some questions:
> >  - Is there a possibility to redirect master to any other name 
> > somehow?
>
> Oh, that is a good question. A quick search finds
>
>  $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/master refs/heads/mainline
>
> If that works for non-local branches (i.e. "origin/master"), then this
> would fully address my concern. As long as random
> git-tutorials/stackoverflow-answers keep working, we don't end up
> adding friction for newcomers and it boils down to us getting used to
> a different word. Having made the switch from svn-trunk to git-master
> in the past, I'm confident that we can manage that :-)

Same. :)

I just tried this out, but I can't see how to push the symref to the 
repo - it might need to be something that happens on the repo side. 
I'll have a chat with our systems people to see if we can set it up for 
Geary.

This would be a good migration plan if it does work, the git update 
hooks on the server could emit a warning when someone pushes to the 
alias to indicate master is deprecated and will go away, and offer a 
link to help explain how to migrate to the new default.

> >  - If Git upstream documentation is not updated, can we hold an 
> > organization wide change until that happens?
> >  - 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.
>
> Those question seem secondary to:
>  - Is there a broader initiative outside of GNOME to rename master 
> branches?
>  - If not, do we want to go on our own (possibly leading the way for 
> others)?

+1

> >  Also, I think we should try to come with a name we are all 
> > comfortable and use only that one.
>
> +1.


Fair. I'll post something there - would a poll be appropriate or just a 
request for suggestions thread?

//Mike

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