> Does 'master' confuse people?

There's a general movement to replace language from common programming practises that derive from, or are associated with, the dehumanization of people. Such as master and slave, as well as whitelist and blacklist.

Github has decided on "main" being a suitable replacement: https://github.com/github/renaming . I have no inside information on the Python steering council, but I assume they are following Githubs guidance.

Hope this info helps,

(He / Him)

Damian

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:31 PM Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:

On 3/9/2021 3:27 PM, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote:

> The Steering Council just published the community update for February:

Thank you for posting this.

> The Steering Council discussed renaming the master branch to main
> and the consensus was that we should do that.

I did not that this was an issue. This will break 4 of my .bat files
(update repository and workspaces, build python.exes, run sphinx on
docs, run coverage.) and, I presume, many other workflow scripts and
bots. What is the upside? ('next (version)' might be more accurately
descriptive, but 'main' works as the 'main branch we are working on'.)
Does 'master' confuse people?

--
Terry Jan Reedy

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