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

[Rafał Miłecki]

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?