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

[Paul Oranje]

Op 27 feb. 2023, om 21:31 heeft Imre Kaloz <kaloz at dune.hu> het volgende geschreven:
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> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, Paul Oranje wrote:
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>>      Op 27 feb. 2023, om 15:44 heeft Imre Kaloz <kaloz at dune.hu> het volgende geschreven:
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>>      A lot of people had this mindset in the last century - we are lucky there were people against those ongoing "developments". It's really
>>      troubling to see even the descendants in Europe so quickly forgetting history.
>> This seems an unholy comparison. This issue about main or master - whatever opinion one may have about that - is just about whether we as a project will
>> be sensitive to the feelings of (descendants of) people that suffered from slavery and for whom the word master carries an unpleasant connotation. A
>> tendency among many projects that for the above reason avoid the use of the term master and following that development should not be compared with those
>> that uncritically followed fascism during the thirties in the last century. So, I kindly and respectfully ask you not to do so.
>> Paul
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> As David noted, slavery had deep and ugly history way before the discovery of the Western Hemisphere. We have enslaved each other, not to mention that the enslavement of Europeans was a significant part of the economy of the Ottoman Empire, too.
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> It never starts with camps and weapons, it always starts with restricting what to say and think followed up with labeling and dehumanizing others. It's really sad that a lot of people don't notice the synergies between the current cancel culture movement and other autocratic movements from the past. Those who burn books, favor censorship and restrict freedom of speech were never the good guys.
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> I understand you have born on the luckier part of the fence and only had to face the brutality of one extreme - we had the "pleasure" to experience both. Anyone from Central Europe will be way more edgy regarding this topic, so being respectful here includes never weaponizing the tragedy of millions and ignore the tragedy of million others'.
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> Imre
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You may have misunderstood me. I asked not to compare those that are in favour of the proposed branch name change to those that uncritically followed fascism. Opposing the name change can be argued very well without that hyperbolic comparison.
Paul