On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 11:33 +0100, Richard Hughes via desktop-devel- list wrote: > On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 06:21, <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > > This should go without saying, but master branches are not a > > reference > > to slavery, rather to canonicity. The master branch is the > > canonical > > branch, the primary copy. > > This is very much my thinking too. I'd agree with this proposal if > every branch forked from master was called slave/hughsie/whatever but > in this case the master is clearly referring to the canonical version > that the others are derived from. The word "master" isn't a bad word, > and doesn't always mean the opposite of slave.
It's non-gender neutral, which was mentioned earlier in the thread. See the master/maiden section of: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/Language/NonSexist/vuw.non-sexist-language-guidelines.txt _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
