From: Santiago Torres Arias <santiago@nyu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:10:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Consensus on a new default branch name
Message-ID: <20200615211055.7fggbfnjk2mawb6h@LykOS.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20200615205722.GG71506@syl.local>

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Taylor Blau wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Over the past few days or so, there has been significant discussion [1] and
> patches [2] about changing the name of the default branch away from 'master' and
> towards something else.

I've been refraining myself from commenting (specially with so many
passionate voices on [1]), but I'm happy that this is happening. While I
personally don't see anything offensive in 'master', I think it's
worthwhile to try to accomodate more people in the community. As always,
it's harder to identify what is bothering a particular group if you are
not part of that group. Kudos to the community (and to you Taylor) for
trying to move this topic forward in a constructive fashion.
 

> My interpretation thus far is that 'main' is the planned replacement for
> 'master'. Consensus seems to have formed around this name [5], but if that's
> incorrect--or there are yet-unvoiced opinions that you would like to share--now
> is the time to discuss further.

I'm not familiar with how formal consensus is built in this community,
but take this as an explicit +1 from me.

Cheers!
-Santiago