Hello! Le samedi 15 février 2025 à 09:42 +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler a écrit : > Recent versions of Git support arbitrary initial branches and the > default > branch name is subject to change upstream, at least in part because > the > current default — “master” — may be perceived as harmful. In the > meantime, > Guix adopted a Contributor Covenant, pledging to interact in ways > that > contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive and healthy > community.
Maybe we could be a bit more explicit instead of “may be perceived as harmful”, if the case needs to be made stronger. For instance, “the current default, “master”, evokes a metaphor for a political organization based on inequality. This is at odds with the interaction model Guix wants to promote through the Contributor Covenant, …” Maybe these are not the right words, and maybe no more verbosity is required. I’m not used to discussing such topics, but I’m glad someone is pushing things in the right direction, away from the uselessly harmful metaphors, thank you. Vivien
