All, I'm sure by now you've all seen the articles, LKML mails, and other chatter around inclusive language in software. While mesa doesn't provide a whole lot of documentation (hah!), we do have a website, a code-base, and a git repo and this is something that we, as a project should consider.
What I'm proposing today is simply re-naming the primary Git branch from "master" to "main". Why "main"? Because that's what GitHub has chosen "main" as their new default branch name and so it sounds to me like the most likely new default. As far as impact on the project goes, if and when we rename the primary branch, the old "master" branch will be locked (no pushing/merging allowed) and all MRs will have to be re-targeted against the new branch. Fortunately, that's very easy to do. You just edit the MR and there's a little drop-down box at the top for which branch it targets. I just tested this with one of mine and it seems to work ok. As far as other bits of language in the code-base, I'm happy to see those cleaned up as people have opportunity. I'm not aware of any particularly egregious offenders. However, changing the name of the primary branch is something which will cause a brief hiccup in people's development process and so warrants broader discussion. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
