Re: [DISCUSSION] Rename master branch as main for the main repository

[Renjie Liu]

+1 Sent from my iPhone On Oct 3, 2023, at 08:18, John Zhuge <jzh...@apache.org> wrote:  +1 On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 2:48 PM Brian Olsen <bitsondata...@gmail.com> wrote: As with any of these changes, the one and only inescapable side-effect is that users' local environments will not be able to be updated. GitHub has otherwise made it very simple to rename branches to accommodate this use case. https://github.com/github/renaming Any old references to master will on the GitHub site itself will reroute to main. It's a small annoyance to make the Iceberg community more inclusive. For those that aren't aware of the why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Terminology_concerns. On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 4:34 PM Hussein Awala <huss...@awala.fr> wrote: +1 On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 11:27 PM Anton Okolnychyi <aokolnyc...@apache.org> wrote: +1 On 2023/10/02 20:12:37 Bryan Keller wrote: > Hearty +1 from me > >    > > > On Sep 29, 2023, at 5:37 AM, Brian Olsen <bitsondata...@gmail.com> wrote:  > >  > > > > >  > > > > +10000000 > > > >  > > > > > > Let me know how I can help! > > > >  > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 7:35 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > <[j...@nanthrax.net](mailto:j...@nanthrax.net)> wrote:  > > > > > > >> Hi guys,  > >  > >  The Apache CoC (<https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct>)  > >  especially contains section 5 about the wording we use. Several Apache  > >  projects renamed the master branch to the main branch (Apache Karaf,  > >  ActiveMQ, Airflow, ...).  > >  As we already use main for go, rust, and python repositories, I wonder  > >  (for consistency) if we should not rename master to main on the "main"  > >  repository.  > >  > >  Apache INFRA can do this "smoothly" but we would have to do some changes:  > >  \- update build.gradle  > >  \- update README.md  > >  \- update to GH Actions (in .github/workflows/*)  > >  > >  Thoughts ?  > >  > >  Regards  > >  JB  > > > > -- John Zhuge