[VOTE] Switch 'master' to 'main' branch for repositories

[Chuanhong Guo]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 10:58 PM Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 27.02.2023 13:28, Chuanhong Guo wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:06 PM Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
> >> More and more projects are switching their repositories to use the
> >> 'main' branch instead of the 'master' branch. This also includes many
> >> Linux upstream trees as well. Some trees are even removing their
> >> 'master' branches already.
> >
> > NAK.
> > I don't see what kind of difference these renamings make.
> > We ourselves are not actively enslaving anybody at all. Why
> > should we make things inconvenient for ourselves while
> > evil people can do whatever they want anyway?
>
> This seems to be the only e-mail so far with any reference to some
> actual policy (or whatever). So is this all about "master" being the
> opposite of "slave" word? Has "slave" become some kind of vulgar word
> now?

This is how the trend of renaming master to main started as I
remembered. I also didn't attend any recent meetings.

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Regards,
Chuanhong Guo