{"thread":{"id":"65635","subject":"I object the social engineering from Master to Main","startedAt":"2026-05-14T13:30:31Z","lastAt":"2026-05-14T13:43:17Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["A D","Chandra"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"543311","messageId":"CANULcizX5J5zE+QgY9TOvqpjrcJM3uFOOAWRJzOW2rBweg2WNA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"65635","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"I object the social engineering from Master to Main","fromName":"A D","fromEmail":"diop.alpha@gmail.com","sentAt":"2026-05-14T13:30:17Z","receivedAt":"2026-05-14T13:30:31Z","isPatch":false,"body":"It is not your role, as a tool, to try to engineer society through\nwarnings or changes of names. Your role is to deliver solid, reliable\nversioning, that's it! Leave the rest to spheres where it can actually\nbe done without weaponizing your position or your audience.\n\nI happen to be black African myself, and I never had any problem with\nthe term \"Master\", and its history for literal decades. The term has\nbeen used in Computer Engineering longer than some of you have been\nalive, and I see no reason to change, or to nudge people toward\nchanging it, just because it offends the sensibilities of some of you,\nwho I very much doubt are even black in the first place.\n\n\"Master\" is a term with a history, and it's cool, if some of you are\noffended by it, change your repos, but leave ours alone and keep your\nwarnings to yourself.\n\nCordially,\nSaliou Alpha Diop\n"},{"id":"543312","messageId":"9vgoWrgWYPUN9Hyss7Tg81TfUYy2h9mjMDx7cgI9LyjRz6tA5IDJpVwfzm1xz9CuPTz1DONlAIOPkdrR7FtkODcsRVCi4PAt53hRGClCp5U=@pm.me","threadId":"65635","inReplyTo":"CANULcizX5J5zE+QgY9TOvqpjrcJM3uFOOAWRJzOW2rBweg2WNA@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: I object the social engineering from Master to Main","fromName":"Chandra","fromEmail":"chandrakr@pm.me","sentAt":"2026-05-14T13:42:59Z","receivedAt":"2026-05-14T13:43:17Z","isPatch":false,"body":"I am strongly in favor of changing master to main. As a person currently in a country where 14 million of my people are enslaved, who also had experiences living in a factory as a child, with many friends who are descendents or have their own experiences being trafficked, this is one of those things that causes unnecessary cognitive ergonomic friction. It's a bandwidth tax for anyone not privileged enough to know only freedom.\n\nAs an engineering tool, creating pointless cognitive bandwidth sapping is counterproductive.\n\nThis is not just about history, this is about the present, where even in Florida there are 700k people who were trafficked in the last year. This is not just about the sensitivities of the privileged, but also about preserving the cognitive bandwidth of those without it.\n\nAn engineering tool should not cause emotional recoil just to use. Accessible and ergonomic design standards ought to be upheld to support seamless usage for all who use a tool.\n\nThank you,\n\n\nChandra Kethi-Reddy\n@archonphronesis:matrix.org\n\nSent from Proton Mail for iOS.\n\n-------- Original Message --------\nOn Thursday, 05/14/26 at 19:00 A D <diop.alpha@gmail.com> wrote:\nIt is not your role, as a tool, to try to engineer society through\nwarnings or changes of names. Your role is to deliver solid, reliable\nversioning, that's it! Leave the rest to spheres where it can actually\nbe done without weaponizing your position or your audience.\n\nI happen to be black African myself, and I never had any problem with\nthe term \"Master\", and its history for literal decades. The term has\nbeen used in Computer Engineering longer than some of you have been\nalive, and I see no reason to change, or to nudge people toward\nchanging it, just because it offends the sensibilities of some of you,\nwho I very much doubt are even black in the first place.\n\n\"Master\" is a term with a history, and it's cool, if some of you are\noffended by it, change your repos, but leave ours alone and keep your\nwarnings to yourself.\n\nCordially,\nSaliou Alpha Diop\n\n\n"}]}