Hi all, You can find some background on this discussion at the link below [0]. This is a topic that has come up regularly among D&I folks at the ASF. The short summary is that the term "master" when referring to a git branch is a reference to terminology related to slavery. I'm suggesting main because this seems to be what the developer community as a whole is gravitating towards. See for example, GitHub's public roadmap [1] where there are plans to make this change.
I'm hoping that this discussion can be focused not on whether anyone has been impacted by such terminology, but how we can move forward. I personally believe that if a single person feels more welcome to contribute because of the change, it's a win. I also don't think making this change needs to be painful. (There are less than 20 relevant references to "master" in the Calcite code.) Apache Mahout and I believe others have already made this change. I think this is a relatively low impact change that can potentially make us even more welcoming to new contributors, which is a benefit to us all :) [0] http://www.kapwing.com/blog/how-to-rename-your-master-branch-to-main-in-git/ [1] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/63 -- Michael Mior mm...@apache.org