Hi Ian,
I created this stub, given that the major GCD being discussed atm
(regarding Codeberg) features a thread concerning whether the term
`master` is not apt for future Guix activity.
As can be imagined (and already raised), that topic risks being
counterproductive in the same channel (nobody has strayed off too far I
should posit).
Id prefer the ruin of this thread than another.
On 2025-02-12 19:09, Ian Eure wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels> writes:
Hello,
I believe that the term `Master` for the root branch is an anacronism.
I propose that it is renamed to `The Gulf of Mexico`.
Unless people have a better suggestion?
Please don’t waste our time with trolling nonsense.
Please dont conflate seriousness with sense.
As an Irish citizen I have an acute awareness regarding top down 'naming
rights'.
Its not cool and its my prerogative to highlight my displeasure should I
notice abuses.
The contemporary Gulf hooha is nothing new - only yesterday was I
drawing parallels regarding the Dail position on the term 'British
Isles' [Volume 606 - 28 September, 2005 -- 593]:
https://social.coop/@indieterminacy/113987198315864816
Im entirely ok with a new name being chosen in solidarity - in line with
Streisand effect type asymmetric tactics.
Not only do I have a name Anglicised from the Celtic form (barstardised
from some random Saxon permutation).
I personally had to resist (through legal means) my children (and
thereby all descendants) having an altered capitalisation of their
surname.
... So forgive me for providing conjecture that is evidently able to be
improved upon.
You and others are free to use this stub to discuss the topic regarding
naming.
Or another.
However, Id assert naming is significant AND irreverence is not
absolutely an impedance within such debates.
Irreverence is not a tool to leave rusted - any historical analysis
countering authoritarianism makes that clear.
For instance, if trolling is genuinely a point of concern and pain, then
I suggest that we switch the name `master` to
`uyghur`.
Rather than playing with purity tests btl armed with eptimology, anguish
and thesauruses, we can remind people that shitty things are happening
and that they should not be forgotten.
Jonathan
