Hello, one question: If agreed, who would volunteer to do the work (without breaking anything)? Cheers, Eddie Jun 10, 2025 12:43:46 PM Badri Sunderarajan <badrihippo@disroot.org>:
I agree with Guus and was about to comment on similar lines.
I would second this. Apart from the non-technical motivation: the XSF's repos are one of the only ones that I still use that use 'master' rather than 'main'. Where my muscle memory previously disliked 'main', it now dislikes 'master'.
My muscle memory, too, has come to expect 'main', and when I see 'master' my first (unfounded) impression is that this is an old repo or some king of legacy project.
We would be far from the first to apply such a change. Tooling has matured well over the years to make the change pretty easy. I hope that this helps to take away most concerns that are of a technical nature. Adding to this: there are many web pages explaining specifically how to change the "master" to "main", including this one that I found from a quick web search. It seems simple enough: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/easily-rename-your-git-default-branch-from-ma...
You are probably all aware that the use of this term has raised controversy in recent years, as it can be perceived as a reference to slavery (see https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_(technology)#Controversy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_(technology)#Controversy> for instance).
I wasn't aware of that controversy. But if those connotations are indeed there I'd be happy to see the name changed, even on non-technical grounds :)
Best, Badri