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

[Günther Wagner <info gunibert de>]

Hi Michael,

i read this list with interest because its a controversial topic. What
i want to know: lets take the approach and rename all master-branches
to something different. Anyone thought about that this will lead to
more usage of master than it is used now? People will come up in 
IRC and will ask where is the master branch. And you have to discuss
this probably with every newcomer that we changed it because master
is not inclusive enough. And then you have to discuss the same topic
with every newcomer exactly like it is discussed here.

You even have to write it down on newcomer landing pages. "Our master
branch is called mainline because ..."

I think this change will pull the word more in the middle then in the
background.

Just my 2 cents

Günther

On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 21:38 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 13:16, Ernestas Kulik <ernestask gnome org> 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 21:08 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote:
> > >  In the end, as the experience Python has had clearly shows, we
> > > will
> > >  gain much, much more by being inclusive than we lose by
> > > entertaining
> > >  a small minority who would rather we aren't.
> >
> > Excuse me if I missed this, but can you elaborate on what has
> > clearly
> > been shown?
>
> After deliberately setting out to make the project more inclusive, 
> Python has reversed a five-year-long trend of declining number of
> core 
> devs and it has been increasing ever since. They have for example,
> in 
> the last three years gone from having 0 to 4 women who are core devs.
>
> They have also been successful in getting other projects to use more 
> inclusive language. For example, MongoDB initially refused to stop 
> using the term "master", but then relented after Python did so.
> GNOME 
> could be in a similar position of leadership here, since it's pretty 
> clear /someone/ needs to be the first to do the right thing to get 
> others moving as well.
>
> //Mike