Good point Antoine, there is engineering work to be done to allow this. I've made an umbrella issue [1] and broke out a bunch of subtasks. The idea is to update our code (mostly CI stuff) to use the default branch, whatever it happens to be called, and then after that is done we will be able to ask INFRA to make the change. Those who are interested in seeing this happen can work on those subtasks, and we can check back once those are done.
Neal [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15689 On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:46 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > Le 14/02/2022 à 21:45, Neal Richardson a écrit : > > There was discussion of this back in 2020 [1], and the consensus at the > > time seemed to be to wait and see where git and GitHub would land before > > making what could be a disruptive change. I support reopening the > > discussion. > > > > It looks like quite a few ASF projects have switched to 'main' by now > [2], > > and in order to do so, we'd need a vote/consensus thread here and then > make > > an INFRA issue (like [3]). > > We also need someone to take responsibility for ensuring that all CI > jobs and other automation is updated for the change. Presumably that > could be the proponent. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > > > > Neal > > > > > > [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/hyc6nxn6k2c19g9h4wj4khoysvwomj41 > > [2]: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20INFRA%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Closed%20AND%20text%20~%20%22main%20branch%22%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC > > [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-21723 > > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:25 PM Mauricio Vargas <mavarga...@uc.cl.invalid > > > > wrote: > > > >> +1 > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:24 PM Fiona La <fion...@mathworks.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> In order to be more inclusive and align with the Git< > >>> https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/> and GitHub< > >>> > >> > https://github.com/github/renaming#new-repositories-use-main-as-the-default-branch-name > >>> > >>> standards for the default branch of new repositories, I would like to > >>> propose renaming the ‘master’ branch to ‘main’ in the Arrow project. I > am > >>> not sure if there has already been discussion about this, but I tried > >>> searching the mailing list archives and did not see anyone mention this > >> yet. > >>> > >>> In terms of tooling, GitHub has enabled renaming branches from the web > >> UI< > >>> https://github.com/github/renaming>. I’m happy to help with this > change > >>> in any way that I can! > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> Fiona > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> — > >> *Mauricio 'Pachá' Vargas Sepúlveda* > >> Site: pacha.dev > >> Blog: pacha.dev/blog > >> > > >
