It's not a term related to slavery, it has much broader meaning than "slave owner", but any argument is probably vain.
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 19:43, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > I am in favor of renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’. To most people it doesn’t > make any difference. To some, such as potential members currently outside > the community, it makes the project more welcoming. > > Very little effort or disruption is required. We’ve identified a potential > source of friction, so let’s fix it and move on. > > Julian > > > On Jul 28, 2020, at 10:31 AM, Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > You can find some background on this discussion at the link below [0]. > > This is a topic that has come up regularly among D&I folks at the ASF. > > The short summary is that the term "master" when referring to a git > > branch is a reference to terminology related to slavery. I'm > > suggesting main because this seems to be what the developer community > > as a whole is gravitating towards. See for example, GitHub's public > > roadmap [1] where there are plans to make this change. > > > > I'm hoping that this discussion can be focused not on whether anyone > > has been impacted by such terminology, but how we can move forward. I > > personally believe that if a single person feels more welcome to > > contribute because of the change, it's a win. I also don't think > > making this change needs to be painful. (There are less than 20 > > relevant references to "master" in the Calcite code.) Apache Mahout > > and I believe others have already made this change. > > > > I think this is a relatively low impact change that can potentially > > make us even more welcoming to new contributors, which is a benefit to > > us all :) > > > > [0] > http://www.kapwing.com/blog/how-to-rename-your-master-branch-to-main-in-git/ > > [1] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/63 > > > > -- > > Michael Mior > > [email protected] > > -- Viliam Durina Jet Developer hazelcast® <https://www.hazelcast.com> 2 W 5th Ave, Ste 300 | San Mateo, CA 94402 | USA +1 (650) 521-5453 | hazelcast.com <https://www.hazelcast.com> -- This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individuals named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version. -Hazelcast
