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I object the social engineering from Master to Main

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ADA D <diop.alpha@gmail.com>
Date
May 14, 2026, 13:30 UTC
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It is not your role, as a tool, to try to engineer society through warnings or changes of names. Your role is to deliver solid, reliable versioning, that's it! Leave the rest to spheres where it can actually be done without weaponizing your position or your audience.

I happen to be black African myself, and I never had any problem with the term "Master", and its history for literal decades. The term has been used in Computer Engineering longer than some of you have been alive, and I see no reason to change, or to nudge people toward changing it, just because it offends the sensibilities of some of you, who I very much doubt are even black in the first place.

"Master" is a term with a history, and it's cool, if some of you are offended by it, change your repos, but leave ours alone and keep your warnings to yourself.

Cordially, Saliou Alpha Diop

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